Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj :
Migration of Bangladeshi workers abroad may break all previous records in 2022, expanding range of destinations and ensuring long-term economic benefits to the country.
The government has taken a number of effective steps in this regard and is now waiting to reap the fruits.
Bureau of Manpower Employment & Training (BMET), Director General & Additional Secretary Shahidul Alam, NDC said that they have already reopened Malaysian labour market for our workers and begun sending workers there and a number of new destinations as well. If this trend continues, they will be able to send record number of workers by this year.”
BMET DG & Additional Secretary Shahidul Alam, NDC was addressed an exchange views meeting with Administration and and elites at Collectorate Conference Room on Saturday, arranged by District Administration in Kishoreganj including Technical Traning (TTC),while Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Shamim Alam presided over.
Additional SP (DSB) Anirban Chowdhury, ADC (Education & ICT) Golam Mostafa were attended as special guests.
It was addressed among others, TTC principal Zabed Rahim, District Press Club president Mostafa Kamal, Senior journalist and CAB district president Alam Sarowar Tito, Mohila Awami League District Secretary Bilkis Begum and Rural Electricity Samity president Tarek kamal.
BMET sources,
Expatriate workers have sent $813 million remittance in the first 10 days of August. Earlier, the country received inward remittance $2.2 billion from the migrants overseas in the last month, which is the highest in the last one year, according to the central bank.
July remittance inflow registered a 17.56% growth compared to the corresponding month of the last year.
Bangladeshis staying abroad sent home over $21.03 billion in 2021-2022 fiscal. Migration sector insiders are hopeful that the inward remittance will also break all previous records in the current fiscal year.
Over 10 million Bangladeshis are living and working abroad. They are the second largest contributor of the country’s foreign exchange earnings after the ready made garment sector”
