A month long training for Saudi-bound women workers will start in the city today (Monday), a top official said.
Following demand from Saudi Arabian employers, the authority is going to launch the training for female workers, he said.
A total of 81 women job seekers will participate in the 30-day residential training in the first batch, said Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE) secretary Khandakar Iftekhar Haidar.
The training will be held at the city's Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Mohila Technical Training Centre (TTC).
"We will provide a comprehensive training including Arabic language so that workers can do their job perfectly," he said.
Training for the second batch is expected to start from May 10 in the country's 14 TTCs, he also mentioned.
Nearly 5000 female job seekers from government database and private recruiters' lists will get training gradually, he added.
Around 100 recruiting agencies have been asked to collect 20 candidates each and they will submit their lists on May 15. Nearly 3000 female aspirants were enlisted in the government database to Saudi Arabia.
On completion of all formalities workers will able to go to the kingdom within a short period, he hoped.
Earlier Saudi Arabia sent a demand for recruiting 40,000 Bangladeshi female workers to the expatriates' welfare ministry, according to information available at the ministry.
Over recruitment process the EWOE secretary said they will upload workers data on their official website while Saudi recruiters will make their (required) workers list from it.
After that they will send workers' demand note to Bangladesh's concerned manpower recruiters. The ministry recruiters will start sending manpower after receiving approval.
Through the procedure there will be no opportunity to cheat the jobseekers by dishonest manpower recruiters, he hoped.
Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in February to hire workers for housekeeping sector in 12 categories.
Saudi Arabia stopped manpower recruitment from Bangladesh in2008 following some allegations, including irregular migration. An estimated 1.5 million Bangladeshis are currently employed in the kingdom.
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