Reza Mahmud :
East Europe is becoming a new horizon for Bangladeshi manpower when the traditional market in Middle East is shrinking.
As a first step, about 30 skilled Bangladeshi workers flew to East Europe’s Romania on Saturday. About 2000 are in pipeline for other country within months, according to recruiting agencies and government officials.
They also hoped that other countries of the region will also open their doors for Bangladeshi manpower aftermath the pandemic.
When contacted, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed on Sunday told The New Nation, “With Romania, East Europe is opening their door for Bangladeshi manpower. Bosnia, Croatia and other countries of this area are also potentials for our workers. We will send our skilled workers their constantly and will expand markets continuously.” The Minister said that his Ministry is working with its utmost efforts to create vast market in the region as there are manpower shortage due to their migrations in western Europe’s richest zone.
“There are a vast possibility of recruiting more than 2,00000 workers in a single country of Romania. We sent 30 persons to the country on Saturday. More than 90 people will fly by March and the process of sending more workers will be streaming,” Farhad Mahmud Tipu, Proprietor of Apporach People Recruitment, an agency of exporting manpower abroad told The New Nation on Sunday.
Farhad Mahmud said, their efforts are ongoing and work orders for sending several hundred workers to Romania will be received soon.
He said Still Mills, Bakery factories, health sectors and other manufacturing factories have demands for skilled workers from Bangladesh.
Earlier on February 22 Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told Journalists that Romania, will recruit 2000 Bangladeshi skilled workers soon.
Sources said, there are several thousand Bangladeshi migrants in different countries of Europe. But most of them are asylum seekers and went there as tourists or with other visa and staying illegally.
Meanwhile some workers had gone in Serbia and Croatia as recruiting manpower but the number of them were very poor. In this circumstances, Romania as an eastern European country exposed their warm responses towards Bangladeshi men.
Farhad Mahmud is optimist that many other will follow Romania. Doors of many other east European states will be opened for recruiting of our people.
When contacted, Bashir Ahmed, Additional Secretary of the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry, told The New Nation on Sunday, “Bangladeshis man power exporting in the land of Europe has been started with recruiting these men for Romania. It is a very good sign for this sector.”
He hoped that many more workers to be sent in Europe aftermath.
