Job-seekers still throng PKB for listing

Hundreds of overseas job-seekers rushed to Probashi Kallyan Bhaban (PKB) at Eskaton in the capital on Sunday despite suspension of enrollment by the authorities concerned.
A large number of job-seekers thronged PKB within 9.30 am on the day to enlist their names, mainly because of poor publicity. Only after talking to the security guards of the building they came to know that registration process was suspended on Thursday.
The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) on Thursday temporarily suspended the enrollment of overseas job-seekers at PKB, after it was found difficult to cope with the growing rush of fortune-seekers there.
The registration programme will be opened at PKB within a short time through a notice, the officials then told the media.
Taking to the FE, Nazrul Islam, a job-seeker, said he saw at television that Saudi Arabia will take manpower from Bangladesh again. So he started for Dhaka last night from Barisal. He reached PKB at 9.00 am for enlisting his name in the government database for securing a job in the oil-rich country.
"But I did not know that the registration programme at PKB has been suspended. I would not come to Dhaka from my village, if I knew it before," he added.
Officials at the ministry of expatriates' welfare and overseas employment said as the office was closed on Friday and Saturday, people were unable to know about the registration stoppage.
"But they will be informed now, as we have put a banner in front of the building about this," they added.
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