Staff Reporter :
The government has an action plan to send 60 lakh Bangladeshi workers abroad in next five years.
State Minister for Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury on Tuesday told the Parliament while answering to a question regarding the matter.
“The government has a action plan to send 60 lakh Bangladeshi workers in different foreign countries in the next five years”, he said while responding to a query raised by treasury bench lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury of Bhola-3 at the question-answer session at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
To send workers abroad is an ongoing process, he told the parliament chaired by Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Overseas employment starts its journey through sending 6,087 workers abroad.
Overseas employment is rising day to day due to government’s appropriate steps.
After the independence, opportunities of migration and overseas employment have been created for the Bangladeshi citizens due to appropriate, time befitting and farsighted vision of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In 2022, 11,35,873 workers left the country for overseas employment which was over 13 lakh in 2023.
Sending of overseas workers has started again to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Maldives and Malaysia , said state minister, adding a memorandum of understating (MoU) has been signed with 17 foreign countries for sending manpower from Bangladesh, the state minister said while responding to another question brought by Nur Uddin Chowdhury Nayan MP of Lakhipur-2.
Even the government has taken a project for employing one lakh drivers in home and abroad.