Deteriorating mental health of the Nepali people: a serious problem

 

Deteriorating mental health of the Nepali people: a serious problem

Due to rising inflation, rising unemployment and increasing emigration, thousands of young people like me are suffering from mental health problems due to stress.  Nepal is trapped by economic and social problems.

Thousands of Nepalis are forced to go abroad every day.  The main reason for this is the unstable and corruption-ridden Nepalese politics and the corrupt leaders who listen only to their relatives and brokers, and the country's economy is becoming weak and weak. 

The people are helpless, in agony, unable to speak with tears in their eyes and pain in their hearts.  The government has created a human production factory.  The remittances sent by the vulnerable people risking their lives have fed the country.  However, the corrupt leaders and brokers, their blind workers and sinful business usurers are looting this country as if they are hiding behind selfishness. 

The government is silent.  The people are helpless.  Young people are leaving the country.  In the coming days, selfish leaders are playing games on the identity of this country by ruling the few old people left in this country.

31 rights of the people are written in the constitution.  But how many have benefited from this right, how many have got the right of employment?  I did not get a job after going to a court, if I get a job, will the state give me a job?  Is it possible to give?  If you go to ask for the right to health, will you be treated with medicine?

Has the budget been allocated for that?  Have you made a strategy?  The implementation of rights is also being done just for show.  Talking about the justice of the court, even if the court finds him guilty, that person does not go to jail.  If they are strong, they run away, get forgiveness and leave.  Lata will go to jail only if he is honest.  Others go to detention, rich people go to hospital.

In the constitution, it is mentioned that economy oriented towards socialism.  Not defined.  Budgets do not appear to be socialist oriented.  Making an extreme capitalist budget and being oriented towards socialism seems contradictory.

Where did the equality, where did the coordination, where did the clean behavior?  What was seen from this?  If the development is pushed forward, it does not appear to have developed.  People have left the country.  Domestic production has not increased.  Industry has not increased, service sector has not increased.  There is disappointment in the population.  It is like leaving the country.

I have said this many times before that the biggest and most basic things of the people are water supply, electricity, education, health and employment.  There is water that cannot be eaten, air that cannot be breathed, which explains environmental pollution.

Besides, the electricity tariff is high, there is no employment, we have given passports and visas to students in education.  Even the basic arrangement of living and eating is not enough for the people.  The increase in the number of people living below the poverty line is being made public.  There are also issues of physical infrastructure.  Work is going on at a slow pace.  When the contracting system is wrong, the people are affected by it.

The most troubling thing facing the country now is rising unemployment.  The main challenge for the recent governments is the creation of youth jobs.  A worker working in a private company earns Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000, but after going abroad, at least that worker earns up to Rs 50,000.  So he is forced to go abroad.

I think that the end of such a situation is a necessary condition now.  The gap in wages between workers working abroad and workers working in Nepal should be addressed by the state by formulating a policy.  It is necessary to end the trend of doing more work for less money in Nepal.

According to statistics, the unemployment rate in Nepal is 11.4 percent.  69 percent of the employed population is in urban areas and 31 percent in rural areas.  Among employed men, 68 percent are in urban areas and 32 percent are in rural areas.  Data shows that 70 percent of employed women are in urban areas and 30 percent are in rural areas.  The number of educated and uneducated unemployed is huge in the country.  It has affected not only the lives of individuals, but also the economy of the country.  

According to the Central Statistics Department (2021), a total of 8.6 million people in Nepal have not found employment according to their qualifications and skills.

Foreign employment: According to the Foreign Employment Board, during the period from 065/66 to 078/79, i.e. in the last 15 years, 5 million 833 Nepalis have reached different countries for foreign employment.  

This number is exclusive of taking labor permits again.  There are 47 lakh 14 thousand 591 men and 286 thousand 242 women among those going for foreign employment.  Nepal has opened up 110 countries for foreign employment institutionally, and Nepalis have gone to work in about 172 countries with individual labor permits.

Uneducated unemployment in the country is 18 percent while literate educated unemployment is 9 percent.  About 74,000 postgraduates, 2,16,000 graduates, more than 400,000 higher secondary or 16th and more than 1500,000 SLC graduates are among those who go for foreign employment.

Even if taken as a means, it is not a good sign for the country. The government needs to come up with an action plan to reduce the number of people going to work abroad while creating an environment of sufficient employment opportunities within the country.

  To modernize, commercialize and diversify the agricultural sector, to attract national and international investors by creating an investment-friendly environment, to expand the employment sector, to promote industry, trade, tourism, construction, etc., to maximize the utilization of available resources and tools, to promote entrepreneurship and self-employment programs at the local level. 

The problem of foreign employment can be solved if the government takes responsibility for distributing, mobilizing large manpower and using the skills of the youth who have returned home from abroad, and not only on paper, but also practically.