Reza Mahmud :
Sending of Bangladeshi manpower to several European countries have become uncertain due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, sources said.
Several members of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) said there were huge scopes of sending Bangladeshi manpower to Europe which seemed uncertain for war..
They said that European countries like Greece, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and others showed their highest interests to recruit Bangladeshi workers.
They were very keen to open their labour markets for them especially in agricultural, tourism, factory, construction and other sector.
When contacted, Farhad Mahmud Tipu, Proprietor of Approach People Recruitment told The New Nation that several hundred workers had been sent to Romania in February and March last year.
He said, “There are good numbers of demand of recruiting our manpower in several sectors in Romania and some other neighboring countries.”
BAIRA members said that hundreds of people have been recruited in agriculture sector in Serbia where more demands have been created.
Hundreds of Bangladeshi construction workers are working in Bosnia with handsome wages and goodwill.
The Bosnian authorities and people are very happy with the Bangladeshi workers hardworking skills and good manners.
The Bangladeshi manager of the construction site expressed his optimism of bringing more workers from the country (Bangladesh).
Meanwhile, six garment workers have been sent to Romania on March7, the manpower exporters have a hope of sending about a thousand..
Sources said that the recruiting agencies were waiting for number of workers visas after easing the pandemic situations as they found that the corona pandemic has been delayed the recruiting process there.
They were hopefully of sending several thousand workers in those countries despite the pandemic, eased but the Russia-Ukraine war created an uncertain situation in this sector.
When contacted, Benjir Ahmed MP, former President of BAIRA told The New Nation on Friday, “The Russian-Ukraine war reflected a bad impact on sending our manpower in the new labour markets in Europe.”
He said that a delegation lead by a city mayor will come from Romania on March 17 for discussing Bangladeshi
manpower recruiting there.
He said that a good news may wait for us of sending more manpower to Romania.
When contacted, Md. Shahidul Alam, Director General of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) told The New Nation, “The war gradually created adverse impact on our manpower recruiting to Europe, especially to East Europe.”
