Kathmandu, April 23 -- The government has extended the deadline for registration of unemployed population under the Prime Minister Employment Programme by a month.
The Labour, Employment and Social Security Ministry has extended the application deadline until May 14 in a bid to allow more time for potential beneficiaries to get enrolled under the scheme, which was launched in February this year to ensure a minimum 100-day of paid work for productive age-group population.
According to Prakash Dahal, chief of the programme, the extension to the previous deadline of April 13 was made to gather more data on unemployed population and to provide them more time to sign up for the programme.
"This is the first year of the programme. We want to m...