Reza Mahmud :
Malaysia’s different sectors are showing interest to employ Bangladeshi engineers in their country opening new window for Bangladesh to send skilled manpower to earn more foreign currency.
Sources from Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur and Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) said, Malaysia, the third largest labour market of Bangladeshi manpower mostly employ non-skilled manpower for its factories, agriculture and Palm oil industries.
The country is now showing its keenness to employ engineers from Bangladesh in its factories and construction sectors.
Md. Golam Sarwar, Dhaka’s High Commissioner to Kuala Lumpur recently visited different chambers of commerce in Malaysia and discussed issues like making ways of employing Bangladeshi higher educated and skilled manpower to different sectors in the country.
The high commissioner visited Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM), Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Penang (PCCC) and others.
Business leaders from those associations of the country expressed their eagerness of importing general workers as well engineers from Bangladesh, in their high-tech industries.
Malaysian business leaders said their electronics and electrics industries are suffering from lack of sufficient number of engineers.
They said the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, there are huge demands for electric and electronic products worldwide.
In this situation, their industries need numbers of engineers from foreign countries like Bangladesh to meet their vacuums.
Besides the businesses, the local governments of the country are also implementing different mega projects which also created huge opportunities of hiring engineers of various sectors from abroad.
Those government projects are also keen to hire Bangladeshi engineers, sources said.
The new approach of taking engineers from Bangladesh creates a big opportunity for Bangladesh to earn more remittances from the potential country, experts said.
As per the data of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET), Malaysia is home of more than 10 lakh Bangladeshi workers.
The East Asian emerging economic country has stopped to import manpower from Bangladesh for last several years due to some disputes over recruiting systems like syndication and partially for the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the Covid-19 situation is found easing in both the country, the door of opening approach springs from the Kuala Lampur.
In this situation, BAIRA members are seriously requesting the government to discuss with Kuala Lumpur about opening the labour market for all recruiting agencies of Bangladesh eliminating all remaining difficulties in this sector.
The BAIRA members said, the new opportunity of sending engineers to that country must have to be realised to boost our remittance widely.
Farhad Mahmud Tipu, Proprietor of Apporach People Recruitment, Member of BAIRA, told The New Nation on Saturday, “Malaysia is opening its window with opportunities of hiring skilled and higher educated manpower from Bangladesh. Government should give it importance to use the full potentials.”
He said, quick steps will open a new horizon of Bangladeshi educated manpower and the country’s economy as well.
