11 lakh Bangladeshis to get job abroad this year
Overseas job mkts witness a boom
06 December 2022
Reza Mahmud :
The number of Bangladeshi workers going abroad with jobs is likely to reach some 11 lakh by this year.
About 102,900 Bangladeshi workers have already gone abroad till November, 2022, according to the data of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).
BMET data shows that the country sent 93,000 workers on average per month this year.
In the pre-Covid pandemic period, the number was around 60,000 to 70,000, according to the BMET data.
It also shows that 9,47,873 migrant workers leave country till the October this year while the number was 6,17,209 in the same period in the previous year.
Meanwhile, the country sent 2,17,669 workers abroad in the same period in 2020 during the pandemic.
It sent 7,00,159 workers to foreign countries in 2019 and 7,34,181 in 2018.
BMET officials said that the country has sent more than 76,000 workers abroad in November alone while it sent 73,134 in October, 90,814 in September and 92,908 in August.
"As the country's manpower exports are witnessing a boom, it will hit a record 11 lakh by the end of this year," Md Shahidul Alam, the Director General of BMET, told The New Nation on Monday.
He cited that BMET made all the procedures of sending workers easier than any time. Even, we have well trained our people eager to get job abroad.
Officials of recruiting agencies said that booming Gulf economies as a result of surging oil prices and the normalisation of the Covid situation have created new opportunities of getting job in those countries for the Bangladeshi workers.
Meanwhile, increasing quota for Bangladeshi workers at all Saudi firms to 40pc from the previous 25 per cent has contributed such record growth, the stakeholders said.
Reopening of Malaysian labour market for Bangladeshi workers will further gear up the country's manpower export in the days to come. When contacted, Mohammad Abul Bashar, President of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) said, "Increasing manpower import by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and reopening of Malaysian labour market for our workers have played a big role for the recent boom of our manpower export."
The BAIRA leader said that the momentum of sending migrant workers from the country will remain intact in upcoming days.
