After a month-long protest against the police raid in some manpower firms, the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies held talks with the Ministry of Labour and Employment to sort out the disputes. Manpower firms had suspended operations as a protest against the police raid and only resumed operations after the MoLE called them for talks on March 31. However, the talks between MoLE and NAFEA are yet to come to any concrete conclusion. Deepak Bohara, Minister for LabourWe have to know about the issue in detail. When the earlier government had enforced ‘free visa, free ticket’ provision last year, manpower firms had launched protest for a month against the government’s move then too. Back then too there was an agreement between the government and manpower firms after the government convinced them that it would consider the issues raised by manpower firms after analysing the impact of the ‘free visa, free ticket’ provision after a few months of its implementation. In the meantime, the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) and the police had made the monitoring strict. The police raided some manpower firms on charges that they were swindling money from foreign job aspirants, which is the cause of the recent protest. I asked foreign employment agencies to withdraw the protest and sit for talks. Now, we are looking at the best possible ways for a long-term solution of such problems and seeking cooperation from manpower agencies to reform the sector.