{"id":1408,"date":"2019-11-26T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:59:44","slug":"he-was-one-of-the-few-ministers-who-delivered-then-the-prime-minister-sacked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/he-was-one-of-the-few-ministers-who-delivered-then-the-prime-minister-sacked-him\/","title":{"rendered":"He was one of the few ministers who delivered. Then the prime minister sacked him."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just two days after he was appointed minister for labour, employment and social security, Gokarna Bista made his first major decision. He announced that the Department of Foreign Employment would now be hearing complaints from migrant workers every day\u2014not just once a week. He set up a separate desk to register grievances and identified two prospective places outside of the Kathmandu Valley to issue work permits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiatives were early signs of how Bista would handle the labour ministry, one of the most important portfolios in a country whose economy is supported by\u00a0remittance from migrant workers. Bista had a hard battle ahead of him, dealing with workers\u2019 plights in foreign lands, labour issues at home, and the fraud and mismanagement that is rampant in the foreign employment sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his nearly two-year tenure, from March 2018 to\u00a0his unceremonious exit last week, Bista took on the foreign employment cartels, winning him both ardent supporters and fierce critics. Ultimately, Bista\u2019s ouster would come from a\u00a0combination of entrenched interests\u00a0that he had upset and the vagaries of political horsetrading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUntil Bista came, labour issues and the labour ministry had always been deemed insignificant,\u201d Janak Chaudhary, general secretary of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions, told the Post. \u201cHe brought labour issues to centre stage and established them to be as important as other national issues. He exposed the wrongdoings prevalent in the labour sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his tenure, Bista enacted a series of far-reaching decisions\u2014either\u00a0new policies, amendments to existing ones, or actions on the ground. He formed a number of\u00a0task forces<\/a>, consisting of independent experts and former government officials, to study labour migration issues\u2014from providing\u00a0legal aid to Nepali workers in foreign jails\u00a0to\u00a0utilising remittance\u00a0in productive sector and\u00a0diversifying labour destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe admitted that he did not know enough and wanted to learn about labour issues, which have their own dynamics,\u201d said Jeevan Baniya, a labour migration scholar and assistant director at the Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility, a research centre. \u201cNo other ministry had shown such departures in established policy in such a short span of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Bista\u2019s tenure, Nepal signed labour agreements with the\u00a0United Arab of Emirates, Malaysia,\u00a0Mauritius, and\u00a0Japan\u00a0while similar agreements are underway with countries like\u00a0Oman\u00a0and\u00a0Qatar. All of these agreements provide Nepali workers with \u2018zero investment jobs\u2019, relieving them of all fees and costs during the hiring process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese agreements with labour-receiving countries were much more progressive than previous agreements,\u201d Baniya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of sweeping reforms, the Labour Ministry amended the Foreign Employment Act 2007, increasing the guarantee amount employment agencies needed to place to start their business. According to Bista, the increase\u2014from Rs3 million to upto Rs60 million based on the number of workers sent abroad every year\u2014was necessary to prevent the mushrooming of recruitment agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite\u00a0threats of protest from recruitment agencies\u00a0and a high-level political lobby, the guarantee amount was increased and subsequently, the number of recruitment agencies decreased to 848 from 1,323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baniya, however, says that this multi-fold increase in guarantee was a little too harsh, especially as the companies were expected to send workers abroad on a \u2018zero cost\u2019 model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe guarantee amount was high because recruiting agencies have to do most of the work on behalf of the workers,\u201d said Baniya. \u201cManpower companies have to travel and negotiate for workers\u2019 demands, but they are expected to send the workers free of cost, which is not practical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bista\u2019s biggest and most ambitious move, however, came early\u2014in May 2018, just two months into his 20-month stint as labour minister. Bista\u00a0scrapped the exorbitant fees\u00a0imposed on migrant workers bound for Malaysia, the most popular destination for Nepali workers. He said that the fees were part of unilateral policies enacted by the Malaysian government and enforced by a group of outsourcing companies in Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nepali workers were then paying a total of Rs18,480 for various pre-departure services to unscrupulous employment agencies. These fees were illegal, Bista had said, since they were imposed without consultation with the Nepal government. This group of companies had already amassed over Rs5 billion from Nepali workers as they had a monopoly on sending workers to Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the crackdown, Bista was hailed for putting an end to the syndicate and relieving workers of illegal fees. However, he also became a target for recruiting agencies and opposition party leaders, who argued that Nepal was losing much-needed remittance and could ultimately lose its most popular labour destination forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Bista held his ground and labour migration to Malaysia came to a halt for months. Ultimately, the Malaysian government itself relented and in October 2018, signed a \u2018landmark\u2018\u00a0labour agreement\u00a0where Malaysian employers bear all the costs of providing Nepali workers with jobs. However, it would take\u00a0nearly a year\u00a0for the\u00a0resumption of Nepali worker migration to Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bista\u2019s tenure, however, was not without faults. He was committed to the cause of workers but he wasn\u2019t very interested in communicating with civil society and remained divorced from the ground-level reality, said Kul Prasad Karki, chairperson of the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee, an NGO working for the welfare of migrant workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Malaysia crackdown was also made in a hurry and without much discussion,\u201d said Baniya, who was a member of one of Bista\u2019s task forces. \u201cAlthough the intention was right, he should have taken time to prepare before swinging into action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of his actions, however, had consequences and a powerful lobby built up against him, said Baniya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince his appointment, he was under sustained pressures from the nexus between political parties and recruiting agencies, which fund such parties during elections,\u201d said Baniya. \u201cBista ultimately became the victim of pressures from various vested groups and had to make his way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bista\u2019s exit was received with shock and surprise, with many criticising the government for removing a minister who had performed better than others in the Cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBig companies, vested interests and recruiting agencies had all been working to remove him,\u201d said Chaudhary, the trade union group leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bista has laid the groundwork for a series of further reforms and the new minister will likely lay claim to the results when they arrive, says Baniya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhoever comes to the ministry from here on,\u201d said Baniyaa, \u201cwill be compared with Bista.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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