Staff Reporter :
The Bangladesh government has fixed the total migration cost for sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia amid a controversy over recruiting agencies syndication.
“A Bangladeshi worker has to pay Tk 78, 990 which covers all costs in Bangladesh. Besides, there would be no expense in the destination country as
employers will bear all costs,” Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister said this while talking to The New Nation.
According to the Director General of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) Shahidul Alam, “Documentation expenses like passport and medical fees, welfare fee, agencies’ service charges are included in the total migration cost.”
Previously, Malaysia took the decision to allow only 25 Bangladeshi agencies to recruit workers from Bangladesh.
Later, a Malaysian MP and two migrant rights bodies asked the Southeast Asian country’s Human Resources Minister M Saravanan to explain their decision.
According to rumours, these 25 agencies are controlled by one Datuk Seri Mohd Amin Abdul Nor, who is the founder of Bestinet – the company that provided the Malaysian government with the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System (FWCMS) and continues to manage the system.
