Bangladeshi workers abroad
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
BANGLADESH should stress sending only skilled and trained workers abroad. Unskilled and untrained workers earn less and are more vulnerable in the foreign job markets. The government should, therefore, create the facilities for training the job seekers in diverse trades that are in demand abroad. It should establish training centres all over the country to admit trainees on nominal fees. The trainees should have the option of clearing the fees once they get jobs abroad.
Overseas job seekers in Bangladesh have to pay a lot of money to the private manpower exporting companies. But these companies declare to the government that they only charge the approved fee per person. In other words, they deceive the job seekers as well as the government. The authorities need to investigate into it and take action against the unethical practice.
The government can make use of the state-owned commercial banks to extend collateral-free credit, at low rates to the job seekers to pay the fees of the manpower exporters. The workers should be allowed to repay to the banks on easy instalments out of their earnings abroad. The arrangements would make it easier for more workers to go abroad on jobs. It would also increase remittance receipts for Bangladesh.
Sajjad Chowdhury
Naya Paltan, Dhaka.
Overseas job seekers in Bangladesh have to pay a lot of money to the private manpower exporting companies. But these companies declare to the government that they only charge the approved fee per person. In other words, they deceive the job seekers as well as the government. The authorities need to investigate into it and take action against the unethical practice.
The government can make use of the state-owned commercial banks to extend collateral-free credit, at low rates to the job seekers to pay the fees of the manpower exporters. The workers should be allowed to repay to the banks on easy instalments out of their earnings abroad. The arrangements would make it easier for more workers to go abroad on jobs. It would also increase remittance receipts for Bangladesh.
Sajjad Chowdhury
Naya Paltan, Dhaka.