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Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has reminded the government's priority to discourage youths from travelling abroad with creation of sufficient jobs at home and engage the migrant returnees in the productive sector.

In his response to the concerns shown by lawmakers during a meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) today, the Prime Minister said the government had announced a period from 2082 to 2092 BS as the Internal Employment Promotion Decade. 

Agriculture, industry, tourism, energy and infrastructure development, the major areas for Nepal's development, are attracting significant investment from both the government and private sectors and they are highly capable of providing job opportunities, according to the Prime Minister. 

The Prime Minister further added that the government had pursued a policy of restructuring the Prime Minister Employment Programme as the National Employment Programme, making it more skill and employment-oriented. 

Entrepreneurship development programs through startup and innovations are in operation, targeting the 'Gen Z' population, he added. 

Likewise, PM  Oli said that under the ReMi Project, reintegration and entrepreneurship promotion programs have been implemented in 20 local levels of Koshi and Madhesh Provinces targeting youths returned from foreign migration.  

Reiterating his commitments against corruption, he said corruption is intolerable.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the government is responsible and sensitive towards concluding the transitional justice process with a guarantee of justice to the survivors.

Responding to concerns raised by lawmakers in a meeting of the House of Representatives today, Prime Minister Oli said that concluding the remaining tasks related to transitional justice and bringing the peace process to a conclusion is a high priority of the government.

Expressing the government's commitment to well recognize the contributions and sacrifices of martyrs, those forcibly disappeared, and conflict survivors, he said that work is in progress to conclude the peace process as soon as possible.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has stated that unity and collaboration between the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, despite their distinct political ideologies, have enabled the nation to successfully face each critical juncture.

Responding to concerns raised by lawmakers during a session of the House of Representatives today, Prime Minister Oli was of the view that such collaboration has led to political stability and transformative achievements, institutionalizing these accomplishments.

He said that both political parties were able to steer adverse political developments in the right direction by following the paths laid out by BP Koirala and Pushpa L Lal Shrestha. 

He claimed that the NC-UML coalition government has been successful in terms of achieving political stability and promoting prosperity in the country.

Oli also took the opportunity to pay tribute to veteran communist leader Pushpa Lal and Nepal's first elected Prime Minister BP Koirala, whose memorial days were observed yesterday and today, respectively.

He called on political leaders to focus on unity and reconciliation, rather than on 'difference' and 'division,' emphasizing the message of harmony conveyed by the two leaders.

The Prime Minister, who is also the Chair of UML, said that Pushpa Lal, a relentless fighter for the cause of the nation and its citizens, was even denied the right to spend his final days in his homeland by the then autocratic regime.

He added that Pushpa Lal’s vision for a joint people’s movement was realized through the collaboration between the Nepali Congress and the then United Left Front Nepal in 1990, which led to the establishment of a multiparty democratic system.

A similar form of collaboration in 2063 BS reinstated the dissolved Parliament, bringing about a qualitative transformation in the political system. Such unity and transformation paved the way for suspending the centuries-old monarchy and enabled the situation wherein a people-elected Prime Minister could exercise the rights of the head of government, according to the Prime Minister. 

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's special address at the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for today has been postponed. 

Chief Whip of UML Parliamentary Party, Mahesh Kumar Bartaula, informed that the scheduled address of the PM was removed from Parliament business today. 

However, the session of lawmakers' questions and answers with the PM will run as it is, he added.