Parliamentary standing committee on Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment on Wednesday proposed maintaining close contact with concerned Malaysian ministries over sending Bangladeshi workers there.
The proposal was made at the committee’s 25th meeting held at Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban with its chairman Nurul Mojid Mahmud Humayun in the chair.
Committee members Md Shahab Uddin, Md Esrafil Alam, Mahmud Us-Samad Chowdhury and Mahfuzur Rahman attended the meeting, among others. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Nurul Islam BSc attended the meeting on special invitation.
The meeting was told that some systematic changes will be brought through soon to be held meeting of joint working group between the governments of Bangladesh and Malaysia to ensure taking part by more recruiting agencies in the process of sending workers, bringing down the immigration cost.
Nurul Islam BSc will head Bangladesh delegation at the meeting to be held on September 25, and the JS body proposed to finalize the process to send Bangladeshis to Malaysian labour market at that meeting.
The committee also emphasized on research on possibility of sending workers to labour markets of different countries, formulating plans to send workers based on the report of the research.
Top officials of concerned ministry, department and agencies were also present at the meeting, among others.
