Written by: Suvani Karki Lamsal - 29055, Grade VI
Posted on: 11 January, 2023
We are the generation of development. We stand here for a better tomorrow. But, does that mean leaving our country behind? Our country is our motherland. This is our place, our own land. But we are turning selfish. We think about ourselves and not about our country. The country who has invested lakhs and lakhs to every individual. As per the latest report last year 65,000 people went abroad. And today we are going to talk about the same thing.
Leaving our country alone to go abroad and struggle for a different country, is that the happiness we want? Even in our family we find many people struggling to earn some money to sustain their livelihood. Now, our current main headline is migrating. Searching for a better place to study. It is also the carelessness of our government. They just focus on the fields which earn them meals. But now it’s time for our government to focus on the problems about the youngster's education field as well. Most of the young people are influenced by their family members. The person who works abroad sends their family a phone, a tablet for their child, and many more things they work for. They work for hours for other countries to run other countries' business. That is what is happening with us. We are getting brain-drained in our teenage years. Our parents give an example of someone to brain-drain us to leave our country behind. The average number of students leaving Nepal is almost 200. Most high on the list is Canada, USA, and New Zealand. These countries are high on the list because they offer PR (permanent resident). By this facility, people get attracted and take the opportunity to live abroad. For example, before the Fifa World Cup, while the stadium was getting built many Nepalese migrant workers died. There are many Nepali people who are brain-drained to leave abroad. Friends circle also takes part in brain-drain. The most and highest on the list who get brain drained are unskilled people.
According to the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE), nearly 3000 people leave Nepal everyday.Foreign employment gives benefits to the economics of our country and at individual levels, but remittance alone cannot cover the cost of leaving one’s country.
So I am left with a few questions in my mind, can’t our country run itself without sending the young citizens abroad? Is the count of people leaving the country behind our fault? Or is it the government’s fault?
