PM for finding overseas employment in new countries

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday laid emphasis on exploring overseas employment opportunities in new countries and sending skilled workforce there, urging expatriate Bangladeshis to send remittance to the country through legal channels.
 
"We have to find new employment areas and new countries (for sending workforce). We will arrange befitting training (for the workers) that a country needs," she said.
 
The Premier said this while delivering the introductory speech at the second meeting of the national steering committee on expatriates' welfare and overseas employment at her official residence Ganabhaban.
 
Mentioning that the government has already started sending workers to a few new countries, she said "We have to send skilled workforce and that is why we've arranged multipurpose training facilities for our workers."
 
"If we can send skilled workforce through proper training, we have a big opportunity to attain economic solvency," she added.
 
She also asked the officials concerned to look into the matters so that Bangladeshi expatriate workers stay well and encourage them to send remittance using legal channels.

The Prime Minister said if remittance is sent through "hundi", the money might go to someone else (it may be family members) and they may spend it, resulting in no saving here for the sender.

She added that sometimes the remitted money also gets misused.
 
"Many of the expatriate workers after returning home find that there is no money in the country what he had sent. And many have to undergo this kind of problem," she observed.

To this end, Sheikh Hasina said that her government has given incentive on the inward remittance if it is sent using the banking or legal channels.

Mentioning the establishment of the Probashi Kallyan Bank by her government, she directed the bank authorities to extend the facilities, by appointing agents where there is no branch of the bank, so that the expatriates could send remittance easily staying at their place of residence.