Ganesh Parajuli, deputy leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s parliamentary delegation, met Mauritius Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations Muhammad Reza Cassam Uteem in Kathmandu during the minister’s informal visit, discussing ways to protect the rights and safety of roughly 14,000 Nepali workers in Mauritius and make labour cooperation between the two countries more effective.
Focus on Nepali workers in Mauritius
The discussion centred on the conditions and protections of Nepali citizens working in Mauritius. Parajuli and Uteem addressed the need to safeguard workers’ rights, promote safety and support dignified employment. The roughly 14,000 Nepalis working in the island nation were the focus of the meeting, according to a report on the talks.
The priorities raised span several aspects of overseas employment. Protecting rights concerns the treatment and entitlements of workers, while safety and dignified employment speak to the conditions in which they work. The meeting brought those issues together in a discussion between a Nepali parliamentary representative and Mauritius’s labour minister.
The reported figure of around 14,000 workers gives the conversation a substantial community of Nepali citizens in Mauritius. Their interests were not framed only as a matter of employment numbers: the discussion highlighted rights, safety and dignity as central concerns for workers abroad.
Call for more effective labour cooperation
Parajuli and Uteem also discussed making Nepal-Mauritius labour cooperation more effective. The topic places the protection of Nepali workers within the broader relationship between the two countries, with cooperation identified as an area for improvement.
The meeting was an opportunity to raise worker protection directly with the minister responsible for labour and industrial relations in Mauritius. Parajuli took part in his capacity as deputy leader of the National Independent Party’s parliamentary delegation, while Uteem was in Kathmandu on an informal visit.
The reported account does not detail specific agreements, new policies or follow-up measures from the discussion. It identifies the shared concerns addressed by the two officials: protecting Nepali workers’ rights and safety, ensuring dignified employment and strengthening labour cooperation between Nepal and Mauritius. Those priorities formed the substance of the meeting as reported.
Issues raised during the meeting
The topics discussed point to the importance of addressing workers’ welfare alongside employment opportunities. For the Nepalis working in Mauritius, the concerns raised relate to both their protection and the quality of their working lives. The emphasis on dignity also signals that labour cooperation was discussed in terms of more than simply facilitating employment.
By bringing the issue to a meeting with Mauritius’s labour minister, Parajuli raised the welfare of Nepali workers as a bilateral concern. The discussion did not, in the available account, announce a concrete programme or specific change. Instead, it focused on the need to protect workers and make cooperation more effective.
The meeting therefore centred on a clear set of priorities for the roughly 14,000 Nepalis in Mauritius: rights, safety and dignified employment. How those concerns may translate into further cooperation was not specified in the report, but the conversation placed workers’ welfare at the centre of Parajuli’s meeting with Uteem in Kathmandu.
