100,000 Bangladeshis to get jobs in Malaysia in three months
September 12, 2008
Over 100,000 Bangladeshis are expected to leave Dhaka with jobs for Malaysia by next three months, foreign adviser said Friday.
“We have come to know that a further 100,000 Bangladeshis will be able to leave Dhaka with jobs for Malaysia this year,” foreign adviser Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury told the FE.
Dr. Chowdhury is also in-charge of the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment.
He said the South East Asian country, which is one of the premier destinations for Bangladeshi overseas job seekers, has already emerged as a key source of inward remittances for the country.
The foreign adviser said inflow of inward remittances from Bangladeshis in Malaysia has set a record in the last fiscal as manpower export to the country increased in the recent years.
In 2007-08, Dhaka received a record $92.44 million worth of remittances from over half a million Bangladeshis living and working in Malaysia. The amount was $11.8 million in 2006-07.
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400,000 skilled manpower may go to foreign mkts this year
August 27, 2008
Bangladesh is targeting to export 400,000 skilled manpower to foreign markets this year.
Adviser for Foreign Affairs and in charge of the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said this while addressing the staff of Jessore Technical Training Centre (TTC) Monday evening.
Chowdhury observed : “All previous records in manpower export and remittances from abroad are being broken. But the challenge now is to improve quality, search for new markets, promote workers’ welfare and protect their rights.”
Decline in remittances likely: The govt. should take necessary steps
August 27, 2008
Remittance by non-resident Bangladeshis rose by 31 percent in the first nine months of the current fiscal year from that of the same period last fiscal year. According to the report, Bangladesh Bank as saying that remittances in the July-May period this FY totaled more than 7.16 billion US dollar equivalent to 49, 060 crore taka against 5.46 billion dollar in the corresponding period of last FY. But economists fear that the rise may face a downward trend as major labour markets in Bahrain and Malaysia have banned fresh manpower recruitment from Bangladesh.
The government should take all necessary steps to convince the two countries to change their decisions. Failing which would badly affect the remittance inflow. Another debacle in getting foreign jobs is the lack of command of the language of the country of destination. The director of the Institute of Modern Languages has said that learning foreign languages could help people, especially young people, get good jobs at home and abroad. Procedural bungling also greatly hampers manpower export to foreign countries forcing thousands of job seekers to wait for indefinite periods.
Some 14,000 workers completed all formalities for flying to Malaysia but their departure was delayed for long just because the flights couldn’t carry more than 700 people daily. This was a great loss for the country. The debacle happened amid government’s failure to find new destinations of employment abroad in the past years. Remittances from non-resident workers are very important for the country’s economy. The government must understand we need to export manpower for earning foreign exchange. Besides, manpower export is a big solace to our unemployment problem. Hence the government should try to address the problem at the earliest.
Manpower export
July 20, 2008
I must congratulate Helal Ahmed Chowdhury, Managing Director of Pubali Bank, for coming up with a very innovative scheme for funding the prospective job seekers abroad. A substantial number of the expatriate wage earners are victims of the unscrupulous manpower agents who extract substantial sums from job seekers for employment abroad. Pubali Bank has initiated an expatriate lending project whereby the bank will advance money to the prospective job seekers who will repay the loan from their remittances.
I do have some personal experience regarding manpower export. It just so happens that when Bangladesh commenced exporting manpower and introduced the manpower license system my license number was number one. That is to say that I was the first to get hold of a manpower export license.
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Bangladesh offers to provide more manpower to Saudi Arabia
July 4, 2008
President Prof Iajuddin Ahmed Thursday said Bangladesh was ready to provide more skilled and unskilled manpower to Saudi Arabia for fulfilling the demand of the labour market of the oil-rich country, reports UNB.
He also said Saudi Arabia could import pharmaceutical products and medicines and explore the possibility of joint-venture investment in boosting Bangladesh’s readymade garment sector that would also benefit the Saudi investors. Read more