Migrant workers send over $3 billion more remittance in current FY
Staff Reporter :
Migrant workers sent over $3 billion in remittance in first five months of the current fiscal year than what they had sent at the same time in last FY, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said on Friday.
Migrant workers remitted about $10.9 billion home between July and November this year, according to the ministry’s data provided during a press conference held at its conference room on Friday.
Addressing the press conference, Minister Imran
Migrant workers sent over $3 billion in remittance in first five months of the current fiscal year than what they had sent at the same time in last FY, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said on Friday.
Migrant workers remitted about $10.9 billion home between July and November this year, according to the ministry’s data provided during a press conference held at its conference room on Friday.
Addressing the press conference, Minister Imran
Ahmad said the government will observe the International Migrants Day nationally on January 6 next year whereas the day has been observed globally on Friday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will join the programme as chief guest virtually, he said.
Responding to a query, Secretary Ahmed Munirus Saleheen of the ministry said at present the government has no pressure from any labour-receiving country for taking back Bangladeshi migrant workers.
