0.8m find overseas jobs in first 11 months this yr
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
FE Report
Over 0.8 million Bangladeshis found overseas jobs in the first 11 months of this calendar year as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone employed nearly half of them, official sources said.
The Middle Eastern country recruited 393,201 Bangladeshis in the first 11 months (January-November). Many of them were employed in that country's booming construction sector.
The total number of overseas emplyment stood at 830,677 at the end of November.
"A large scale infrastructure development in the UAE comes as a big boon for Bangladeshi job aspirants. Over 35,000 Bangladeshis found jobs on an average every month in the gulf state," said an official.
The official at the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) told the FE that "Recruitment of a large number of Bangladeshis by the UAE companies helped us record 10.8 per cent growth in overall overseas jobs in the first 11 months over that of the corresponding period last year."
At least 91,999 found overseas jobs in January, 71,716 in February, 56,384 in March, 72,257 in April, 82,739 in May, 98, 002 in June, 88202 in July, 54,708 in august, 69,768 in September, 74,029 in October, and 55,772 in November this year, according to the BMET.
This higher growth in overseas jobs helped Bangladesh receive $2.992 billion worth of remittances during July-October period of this fiscal year against $2.178 billion in the same period of 2007-08 from the country's more than 5.61 million people who work and live abroad.
Over 0.8 million Bangladeshis found overseas jobs in the first 11 months of this calendar year as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone employed nearly half of them, official sources said.
The Middle Eastern country recruited 393,201 Bangladeshis in the first 11 months (January-November). Many of them were employed in that country's booming construction sector.
The total number of overseas emplyment stood at 830,677 at the end of November.
"A large scale infrastructure development in the UAE comes as a big boon for Bangladeshi job aspirants. Over 35,000 Bangladeshis found jobs on an average every month in the gulf state," said an official.
The official at the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) told the FE that "Recruitment of a large number of Bangladeshis by the UAE companies helped us record 10.8 per cent growth in overall overseas jobs in the first 11 months over that of the corresponding period last year."
At least 91,999 found overseas jobs in January, 71,716 in February, 56,384 in March, 72,257 in April, 82,739 in May, 98, 002 in June, 88202 in July, 54,708 in august, 69,768 in September, 74,029 in October, and 55,772 in November this year, according to the BMET.
This higher growth in overseas jobs helped Bangladesh receive $2.992 billion worth of remittances during July-October period of this fiscal year against $2.178 billion in the same period of 2007-08 from the country's more than 5.61 million people who work and live abroad.