Overseas labour markets shrinking: Daily Star

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In its editorial, the paper says that besides tackling the obvious irregularities associated with recruiting agencies, Bangladesh needs to move into high gear on a number of other issues.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DHAKA - In the first eight months of the year, Bangladeshis got 4,17,084 jobs abroad, 2,08,536 fewer than the government's projected number for this period.Although we are all aware of the irregularities in recruitment practices, there is also the emerging case of restrictions being placed on our workers.

But the Kingdom is enforcing a Saudisation policy, which means reducing dependence on foreign workers. The situation is more or less the same with other countries in the Gulf and South East Asian nations, which have either frozen access of our workers to their markets, reducing the numbers of Bangladeshi migrant workers - or their numbers have remained stagnant. Nepal for instance successfully negotiated and struck a deal with Malaysia for their workers whereas we have not.

 

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