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Japan: Japan is going to grant fast track visas to foreign skilled workers with special abilities by simplifying the visa process. Japan will grant a 5-year visa for applicants in advanced business and management activities with an employment record of 5 years or more and an annual income of ¥40 million.
The ministerial meeting took this decision to make it easier for young foreign skilled manpower to find employment in Japan.
A ‘specified activity’ visa will be granted to foreigners who have graduated from a university ranked in the top 100 in the world rankings as determined by Japan’s Immigration Service Agency. which will enable them to stay employed for two years.
The government aims to start the new system in April after taking public opinion. A points-based system based on qualifications including educational, employment background and annual income is said to be adopted for granting visas.
Analysts say that it is difficult to find skilled manpower at this time when the global race to get skilled workers is heating up. Those who obtain a 5-year visa under the simplified requirements will also be eligible for a permanent visa after one year of residence, compared to 3 years for current holders.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said in a ministerial meeting that the new system to be implemented will give priority to those with high-level abilities.
Under the current system, which was launched in 2012, a total of 34,726 people had received 5-year visas as of June last year.
Hum na rahab matike gharme
Even though it is cool in summer and warm in winter, the roofs of Madhesh are changing due to the fact that the houses of Khapra need to be repaired every year before the rains, and due to the difficulty of finding khapra and skilled workers.
As the traditional occupations do not provide livelihood, the clay pot makers are in alternative occupations, the choice of house builders is also confirmed.
Dhanusha – Hum na rahab sayana matike ghar,
Sure Pithwai Da Balmuwa…
(I don’t live in a mud house dear,
build a solid house my love)
Hum na rahab matike gharme
Even though it is cool in summer and warm in winter, the roofs of Madhesh are changing due to the fact that the houses of Khapra need to be repaired every year before the rains, and due to the difficulty of finding khapra and skilled workers.
As the traditional occupations do not provide livelihood, the clay pot makers are in alternative occupations, the choice of house builders is also confirmed.
Dhanusha – Hum na rahab sayana matike ghar,
Sure Pithwai Da Balmuwa…
(I don’t live in a mud house dear,
build a solid house my love)
This song from Bhojpuri singer Nisha and Arvind’s album ‘Aji Gavana Karali’ is still relevant in Madhesh. The song, which was released two decades ago, depicts the condition of slums and homes in Madhesh. Bhojpuri love songs became popular in Mithila-Madhesh due to its geographical location.
The meaning of the song is that the husband who has gone to work abroad is asked to send money to build a solid house, saying that the house is unsafe at night when his wife is gossiping on the phone. Accordingly, after returning from foreign employment, the process of demolishing houses covered with mud and thatch and making pavements increased in Madhesh.
At the same speed as Khapra’s houses were being built, the number of people going to work abroad also increased. With the Maoist conflict and the country’s political ups and downs, there was an increase in migration from Madhesh to the Gulf countries due to lack of employment in the country. Now it’s even hotter.
Those who went for foreign employment initially did two jobs. First, Khapra’s mud houses were demolished and paved. Secondly, the children were placed in the nearby city bazaar area and started teaching boarding schools. This is the first change that foreign employment has brought to Madhesh. However, even though foreign employment is one part of the removal of kachcha (khapra) from home, the problem of leaving Kaligad for khapra weaving was also added to the problem.
Sahadev Pandit of Aurhi Rural Municipality-2 Bara Kumhal tol of Dhanusha is a potter and potter by profession. He was 70 years old. Life is no longer the type to work hard like the youth. In his house, the main potter’s tool is rusted. The khapra and pot making cycle has stopped. The spade is rusted after being disused.
There is an awan (traditional kiln) for firing pottery in front of the house for years. When Lakka was young, Sahadeva traveled from Virganj to Biratnagar to make pottery. The ancestral occupation of Sahdev, which stretches from the eastern Koshi coast to the Wagmati coast, has come to a halt after the khapra was displaced from his father’s body and the roof of his house. Showing the roof of the house covered with mud khapra, he said, ‘When I was 10/12 years old, I lived outside the house for months to make mud khapra.
The khapra I made when I was young is still on the roof. A khapra broken by hail does not last long. With my age, the life of the khapra covering the roof of the house is ending.” Sahadev said that only a few houses in remote rural settlements have khapra. Khapra has been replaced first by alabaster, later by zinc leaf and now by concrete slopes. There are more than a hundred Kumhal houses around Sahdev’s house. However, the shingles have started to disappear from the roof of their house.
Most of the houses are covered with cement alabaster and zinc sheets as the old shingles are crumbling. The new generation has stopped keeping khapra in the potter’s house. It has been a decade since the 70-year-old Hridaykant Mandal of Bara, who spent his youth with potters making mud pots, started living in the pakkighar.
Fenhara Village (Vishnu Rural Municipality) near the Indian border of Sarlahi is a settlement where Gujmujj lives. Fenhara, inhabited by Yadav, Kumhal, Sahteli and Brahmin castes, did not even have 10 concrete houses two decades ago. Due to the dense settlement of Kumhals, most of the houses here had thatched roofs. However, when a drone camera took a picture of Fenhara on February 19, only a few thatched roofs were visible in the hollow of the concrete house. (See drone photo below). According to Sogarath Pandit of Fenhara, a limited number in the village two decades ago
Only the houses of Brahmins and Sahteli were paved. “Most of Yadav and Kumhal’s houses were in Khapra,” he said. Kumhal also stopped making khapra.’
The roof of Hotel Navarang in Janakpur, the capital of Madhesh province, is made of Khapra. Prakash Bhagat, the owner of the hotel, said that because the customers liked the same look of Navrang Hotel, Khapra’s house was preserved. “When Navarang Hotel was started 35 years ago, such a large space was not found in the main area of Janakpur,” he said, “This house covered with khapra was found suitable and the hotel was opened.
Now this structure has become attractive for customers. According to Bhagat, the house where Navrang Hotel is located is about 60 years old. Due to the increase in annual expenses for the maintenance of the old house, a concrete building has been built next to the hotel. After Baisakh, Navarang Hotel is now moving to the same concrete house. Bhagat said that there is a plan to demolish the house in Khapra where the hotel is located and build a concrete structure there.
Navrang is just one example. In Madhesh, there is an increasing trend of leaving traditional Khapra houses and moving to concrete houses. Because it is considered that wealth is better than that of kacchi and khapra, there is a rush to change the traditional appearance of the house. Mahaveer Singh, a teacher of Gaushala-12 in Mahottari, has recently paved the front of a thatched house with a thatched roof.
As the house has to be covered before every rainy season, because the khapara is not easily available and water does not enter, even skilled laborers cannot be found to cover it with thick mercury, so they are using the old house as a shed and similar. Singh, who moved from Pohor to Pakki Ott, says that he is comparatively comfortable living in his old house during summer. He has experienced that even though he is safe in a concrete house during winter and rain, when it is hot, the old house is cool.
Until 30 years ago, when the rains ended in Madhesh and winter was about to start, Kumhal used to go to the village to make khapra. Artistic around Dasain-Diwali