Sylhet Correspondent :
Speakers at a discussion in Sylhet stressed the need for safety and security of the migrant workers through maintaining legal procedures recently. Sylhet District Administration and District Employment and Manpower office organized the discussion at Deputy Commissioner’s conference room here in observance of the International Migrants Day Additional Divisional Commissioner Minal Khanti Das addressed the discussion as the chief guest With ADC Shohidul Islam Chawdhury in the chair. Abdur Rab, Mir Kamrul Hossain, Samsul Alam, Nurul Islam, Shah Nojrul Islam were present as special guests on the occasion. The chief guest said Bangladeshi migrant workers are playing an important role in the country’s socioeconomic development by contributing to the foreign exchange reserve. She said currently 90 lakh Bangladeshis are working abroad and about 24 lakh workers were sent to over 150 countries during the last five years. “The country has received a total of $60 billion remittance during the period,” she added. The ADC later handed over cheques among the meritorious students of offspring of Bangladeshi migrant workers, according to a news agency.
BSS from Gaibandha adds: International Migrants Day-2015 was celebrated in the district as elsewhere in the country and the globe on Friday with a call to protect the rights of migrant workers and members of their families.
Marking the day, district administration and the office of District Employment and Manpower under the directives of the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment jointly chalked out the elaborate programmes.
In the morning, a big colorful rally was brought out from the premises of district collectorate building here and ended at the same venue after parading the main roads of the town.
Later, a discussion meeting was also held at the conference room of deputy commissioner with additional district magistrate M. Shafiqul Islam in the chair.
Additional deputy commissioner (General) M. Shamsul Azam attended the function and addressed as the chief guest and Sadar UNO Ashraful Momin Khan was present as the special guest.
The function was also addressed, among others, by principal of Technical Training College M. Atiqur Rahman, manager (operation) of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Gaibandha branch Atiqur Rahman, manager of Janata Bank Limited, Bridge Road branch Bolai Chand Sarker, manpower officer Nesarul Haque and journalist Sarker M. Shahiduzzaman.
Speakers at a discussion in Sylhet stressed the need for safety and security of the migrant workers through maintaining legal procedures recently. Sylhet District Administration and District Employment and Manpower office organized the discussion at Deputy Commissioner’s conference room here in observance of the International Migrants Day Additional Divisional Commissioner Minal Khanti Das addressed the discussion as the chief guest With ADC Shohidul Islam Chawdhury in the chair. Abdur Rab, Mir Kamrul Hossain, Samsul Alam, Nurul Islam, Shah Nojrul Islam were present as special guests on the occasion. The chief guest said Bangladeshi migrant workers are playing an important role in the country’s socioeconomic development by contributing to the foreign exchange reserve. She said currently 90 lakh Bangladeshis are working abroad and about 24 lakh workers were sent to over 150 countries during the last five years. “The country has received a total of $60 billion remittance during the period,” she added. The ADC later handed over cheques among the meritorious students of offspring of Bangladeshi migrant workers, according to a news agency.
BSS from Gaibandha adds: International Migrants Day-2015 was celebrated in the district as elsewhere in the country and the globe on Friday with a call to protect the rights of migrant workers and members of their families.
Marking the day, district administration and the office of District Employment and Manpower under the directives of the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment jointly chalked out the elaborate programmes.
In the morning, a big colorful rally was brought out from the premises of district collectorate building here and ended at the same venue after parading the main roads of the town.
Later, a discussion meeting was also held at the conference room of deputy commissioner with additional district magistrate M. Shafiqul Islam in the chair.
Additional deputy commissioner (General) M. Shamsul Azam attended the function and addressed as the chief guest and Sadar UNO Ashraful Momin Khan was present as the special guest.
The function was also addressed, among others, by principal of Technical Training College M. Atiqur Rahman, manager (operation) of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Gaibandha branch Atiqur Rahman, manager of Janata Bank Limited, Bridge Road branch Bolai Chand Sarker, manpower officer Nesarul Haque and journalist Sarker M. Shahiduzzaman.
