Protect overseas job seekers from frauds, middlemen: PM

UNB :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for ensuring that seekers of jobs abroad must not fall prey to the frauds and middlemen.
“So we always have to consider that these people could go abroad through proper channel and get appropriate job. It is very important for us to ensure that these people must not fall prey to fraudulent people and middlemen,” she said.
The prime minister was delivering her introductory speech at the second meeting of the Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Affairs National Steering Committee at her official residence Ganabhaban.
She asked the authorities concerned to find new destinations for sending manpower alongside making them skilled through giving appropriate training on different trades.
“We have manpower in different countries, but we have to find more destinations,” said the PM.
Hasina said that the government has started sending manpower to some new places. “But, we have to send skilled manpower. We have taken initiatives to provide training,” she said.
She asked the authorities concerned to figure out which country needs what kinds of skilled manpower. “We will provide training to them.”
The PM mentioned that sometimes it is seen that people are selling their houses and lands to pay the unscrupulous middlemen and fraudulent persons for a job abroad.
She put emphasis on creating public awareness against going abroad for jobs through middlemen.
During the heavy pressure on the economy forcoronavirus pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war, the income of the expatriates contributed a lot in the country’s reserve and overall development, said the prime minister.
She said the Awami League government has established Expatriates’ Welfare Bank to provide loans to the overseas jobseekers.
Hasina also praised the freelancers of the country for earning foreign exchange. “Our freelancers are also earning foreign currencies. We have given them certificates after bringing them under registration process.”