Making a mess of social security

Employers and employees rightly do not trust the new Social Security Fund.

In November 2018, the government launched the contribution-based workers' social security scheme amidst an uncharacteristically pompous ceremony and fanfare. At the expense of the taxpayers' money, life-sized portraits of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli as the harbinger of this 'new era' for Nepal's labour welfare were hung on lampposts along all major roads in the Kathmandu Valley. In his inaugural speech, the prime minister had