Business Desk :
A group of recruiters have called for keeping the manpower export sector out of the purview of the nationwide weeklong fresh lockdown starting from tomorrow.
Recruiting Agency Oikya Parishad, an association of private recruiting agencies, wrote to Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad in this regard on Saturday.
Its President M Tipu Sultan said the future of migrants who had obtained visas and those spending their vacation here would become uncertain if the manpower sector remained closed during the lockdown. More than Tk150 crore have been paid for non-refundable tickets and quarantine hotel bookings in destination countries for thousands of migrants, he said.
He requested operating international flights for as long as destination countries would recruit migrants amid the pandemic.
Recruiting Agency Oikya Parishad said in the letter the novel coronavirus had already cost the recruiting agencies hundreds of crores of taka.
It said it is very important to keep the sector out of the purview of the lockdown by declaring it an emergency service sector.
