4,28,186 workers went abroad this fiscal: Minister

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday said a total of 4,28,186 Bangladeshi workers went to different countries of the world his fiscal year.
"A total of 4,28,186 workers went abroad in the 2014-'15 fiscal year. Of them, 32 percent are skilled, while 14 percent semi-skilled and 54 percent low-skilled ones," he said replying to a starred question from Jasod MP Shirin Akhter (Feni-1).
Mosharraf said oversees jobseekers are being trained up on 48 vocations in 51 training institutions in various districts under the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET). The institutions are capable to train up 1.15 lakh people a year, he added.
In reply to another starred question from ruling Awami League MP Sanjida Khanon (reserved seat-24), the minister said Bangladesh sent 76,006 female workers to various countries in the current fiscal.
Some 3.93 lakh female workers were sent to various countries from 1991 to May 2015, he added.
Responding to a starred question from independent MP Tahjib Alam Siddique (Jhenidah-2), the minister said some 30.75 lakh Bangladeshis workers got overseas jobs from January 2009 to May 2015.
Informing that Bangladesh exports manpower to 160 countries, he said the remittance from wage earners increased over the years and the amount of remittance went up to US$ 14.93 billion in 2014, a news agency report added.