Huge potentials of exporting salon workers untapped
Reza Mahmud :
Mammoth potentials of earning billions of dollars through exporting hair cutting salon workers abroad remain untapped.
Sources said hair cut people are very essential and skilled manpower which have enormous demands in different countries including the Middle-East, Europe and several other places in the globe while it is the officials of Bangladesh who have not pay any heed to the matter, stake holders alleged.
The main stake holders of exporting manpower, Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) said that they usually collect visas as a bulk from the manpower importer countries where they have a minor role on sending special categories of skilled people.
They said the officials in Bangladesh embassies in foreign countries responsible to create and expand overseas market for Bangladeshi manpower have a vast role of searching scopes for employing hair cutting salons workers abroad.
BAIRA members, however, alleged labour wing officials in Bangladeshi embassies abroad widely ignoring their responsibilities of searching opportunities for salons workers while the other countries already are earning lots of foreign currencies exporting hair cutting people abroad.
BAIRA leaders said countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have a vast market for employing hair cutting salon workers for Bangladeshi professionals.
They said the BAIRA members have limit scopes of collecting demands from those countries by knocking door steps for these workers.
When contacted, Md. Abul Bashar, President of BAIRA told The New Nation, “BAIRA members have very little scope to search salons workers hiring hubs as it is huge costlier efforts for them.”
The BAIRA President said, “It is the officials in labour wing of Bangladeshi embassies abroad who have responsibilities in this matter.”
He said, neighboring Nepal, India and Pakistan used to send salon workers in enormous numbers to Arabian countries for long.
When contacted, Mohammad Abdul Hye Director of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) of the ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment told The New Nation, “The country is really lagging behind from exporting huge potential salon workers abroad. Now, it will be given priority.”
Contacted, Senior Secretary of the ministry Dr. Ahmed Munirus Saleheen told The New Nation, “We will help those recruiting agencies who want to export salon workers.”
Apart from these, many people from salons in Bangladesh said there is a vast scope of expanding source of earning money through starting salon workers exporting.
“If the government initiates exporting salon workers abroad, there are numbers of salon in Bangladesh to provide adequate training for creating skilled manpower to export from this sector,” said Adhir Kumar Sarker, a senior hand of a Gandaria salon in the capital.
Adhir Kumar further said that the salons also are able to provide huge number of skilled salon workers for exporting abroad.
