Youth, Labour and Employment Minister Ramji Yadav inaugurated Everest Multi Skill Pvt Ltd, a modern technical training centre in Dadhikot, Bhaktapur, on Sunday. Established with an investment of Rs 90 million, the centre is intended to provide skills to Nepali youths preparing for foreign employment. At the inauguration, Yadav said Nepal needs skilled workers whose abilities match the requirements of national and international labour markets, and argued that academic certificates alone are not enough without relevant skills and access to jobs.
Training focused on employment needs
The centre’s stated purpose is to prepare young people for work abroad by providing technical training. Its opening comes amid a debate highlighted by the minister: how education and training can translate into employment. Yadav said that producing manpower suited to the demands of employers at home and overseas is essential to addressing unemployment.
His remarks placed the emphasis on what young people can do, rather than on qualifications alone. He stressed that youths need market-relevant skills and employment opportunities, setting those needs apart from the acquisition of academic certificates without a clear connection to work. The distinction was central to his message at the inauguration: training should help prepare people for the requirements of the labour market.
The centre has been established with an investment of Rs 90 million. The information available about its opening identifies its intended audience as Nepali youths preparing for foreign employment, but does not detail the specific courses it will offer, the number of trainees it can accommodate, or when its training programmes will begin. Those details were not announced in the reports of the inauguration.
Minister stresses skills to address unemployment
Yadav linked the need for job-relevant training to the challenge of unemployment. In his remarks, he said that producing skilled manpower aligned with national and international market demands was essential to tackling the problem. His comments therefore framed technical education not simply as training, but as preparation for employment in a labour market where workers’ abilities need to match available demand.
The minister also underscored the importance of employment opportunities alongside skills. His message was that young people need both: capabilities that employers require and pathways to use those capabilities in work. The inauguration brought that argument together with the opening of a facility whose stated purpose is to train people preparing for overseas jobs.
A new centre in Dadhikot
Everest Multi Skill Pvt Ltd is described as a modern technical training centre. Its opening in Dadhikot adds a facility focused on vocational skills for young Nepalis seeking foreign employment. The Rs 90 million investment marks the scale of the commitment made to establish the centre, while the stated aim connects its work to the demand for trained manpower in domestic and international markets.
The inauguration itself does not establish how many young people the centre will train or what employment outcomes they may achieve. Those results will depend on the training provided and the opportunities available to graduates, details not included in the reports. Yadav’s remarks nevertheless set out the standard against which such efforts should be judged: whether young people gain skills relevant to the market and can access employment, rather than receiving certificates alone.
The opening thus paired a new training facility with a broader call to make workforce preparation more responsive to employment needs. For the centre, the stated focus is young people preparing for jobs abroad; for the minister, the larger priority is skilled manpower that meets demand and helps confront unemployment. The centre’s courses and future reach have yet to be specified publicly, but its inauguration put skills-based preparation at the centre of the discussion.
