TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY

                                  FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT             FULL MARKS=60

                                        OFFICE OF THE DEAN                     TIME= 3HRS

                                                      2014

BBA/ Second Semester/ ENG 202: English - II

    Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable

1.     Read the passage and answer the questions given below:

Terai districts have topped the charts of Nepali workers leaving the country for foreign employment. That is not all; government reports show that Individuals going abroad for jobs from the Terai districts including Dhanusa, Jhapa and Morang is in an upward trend.

A total of 21,580 individuals, including 53 females, left for 13 countries from Dhanusa, who also becoming the top worker supplier from Nepal to international Labor markets, in the last fiscal year 2013-14.Jhapa and Morang that are also considered good in domestic industry sector, sent 18,831 and 18,018 workers, respectively.

Similarly, Siraha and Mahottari sent 17,362 and 15,764 individuals for foreign employment in the last fiscal, standing as the fourth and fifth worker suppliers. The department of foreign employment (DoFE) said that a total of 445,710 individuals, including 14,813 women, acquired institutional labor permits to work in foreign job destinations in the last fiscal year, through mediation of foreign employment agencies.

DoFE data does not include those individuals who left for overseas jobs through their personal approach acquiring” individual labor permits”. According of DoFE officials, Departure of workers from terai region has been increasing because of comparatively higher population there, poverty and lack of employment opportunities.

Of the total 26.49 million populations (census 2011) of the country, over half of them reside in terai region. Studies have shown that migration for jobs abroad has been increasing in the terai districts from where people are already working in foreign labor destinations. The region is good in term of agriculture, road connectivity and industry; however, increasing migration trend for jobs indicates that youth are more attracted to foreign employment due to the influence of those who have already migrated.

Industrialist said that there are cases where workers have left their jobs and opted for foreign employment. “Migrant workers returning home have also joined industries and the performance of such workers is better,” said Manis Agrawal, vice-chairman of employer’s council of federation of Nepalese chambers of commerce and industry (FNCCI).

Despite the rise in departure of potential workers, domestic industries have not witnessed any shortage of labor so far as the size of operational industries is small compared to workers entering the labor market. Agrawal said that labor migration from different parts of the country, irrespective of districts, is a result of failure to increase economic activities, investment and operative new industries to create jobs in the local labor market.

Each year, 400,000 plus labor force enters the local labor market. As per DoFE, lowest migration to international labor destinations was recorded from Dolpa district in the last fiscal year. The district supplied only 23 individuals, including a woman to six countries.

Even as the number of workers being supplied is low from hilly and mountainous district, labor migration to third (except India) from districts including Dolpa, Mustang, Mugu, Humla and Jumla is also increasing. Mugu which has witnessed departure of 51 individuals in fiscal year 2014-12 sent 145 workers in the last fiscal.

                          Comparative figures

 Top Five

Districts	FY 2013-14	FY 2012-13	FY 2011-12
Dhanusha	21580	18896	11643
Jhapa	18831	17981	11778
Morang	18018	16796	10794
Siraha	17362	13945	9223
Mohottari	15764	12608	9476

Bottom five

Districts	FY 2013-14	FY 2012-13	FY 2011-12
Dolpa	23	14	9
Mustang	59	48	22
Humla	86	45	113
Mugu	145	80	51
Jumla	300	178	69

Questions:                                                                                                          2*4=8

1)    Which district from the terai tops the chart in supplying more number of individuals?

2)    Where do aspiting workers acquire their institutional labor permits from?

3)    Why are people from terai more interested to work in foreign job destinations than people from hilly region?

4)    What does Manish Agrawal have to say with regards to the migrant workers returning home?

2.     Write the four levels of interacting with the poem My Papa’s Waltz.      (12)

3.     Answer any five questions:                                                                          5*5=25

a)     Does a gorilla deserve to earn the title A Most Forgiving Ape? Explain by giving the details of the journey made by Alan Moorehead.

b)    The ballad of landlord represents American lives of late 1950s. Explain.

c)     The author says: the artist “must strive to understand the Buddha before he could paint him”. How does the artist go about trying to understand something or someone through a similar method?

d)    How the play chandalika is a voice of the silenced and marginalized in the history?

e)     Explain the ambivalence in the poem metaphors.

f)      What might be the purpose of the lottery in the village in general and what might be the purpose of Shirley Jackson in particular in the story The Lottery.

4.     The library of your college could be improved a lot. Write a brief report to the director regarding the problems and your recommendations.              (5)

5.     Your college is going to conduct a blood donation programme on 20^th September, 2014. As the in charge of the Programme, write a directive memo to the class representative of all the semesters to make the programme successful.                                                                                          (5)

6.     Write a letter to a teacher showing your appreciation for his or her professionalism and dedication. Follow the criteria for writing a good-news letter and the writing process techniques.                                                        (5)