Malaysian team due on July 29

A Malaysian delegation will arrive in Dhaka next week to discuss the modalities of manpower recruitment from Bangladesh under private management.
The team led by Deputy Secretary General of Malaysian Home Affairs Ministry Wahab Bin Mohd Yasin is scheduled to visit Bangladesh from July 29-31, said officials.
The other members include immigration department director general Mustafa Bin Ibrahim, foreign ministry's consular division undersecretary Zulkifli Yaacob, home ministry's immigration division undersecretary Shahril bin Ismail and foreign workers' division undersecretary Mohd Zamir bin Mat Zain.
They will hold a series of meetings with the Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment minister and senior officials concerned to draw up plans and set the modalities to hire manpower from Bangladesh.
Later, a high-powered delegation would visit Malaysia to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on recruitment of manpower from Bangladesh, said a ministry official.
The visit by Malaysian team has been planned after a decision on manpower recruitment under business-to-business mechanism was taken at a bilateral meeting between Malaysian Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and immediate-past EWOE Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain at Putrajaya in Malaysia at the end of June.
The Malaysian minister later confirmed the Bangladeshi visiting minister to recruit 500,000 workers from Bangladesh shortly.
However, the G-to-G workers recruitment process hardly made any tangible progress in sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia. So far around 9,000 Bangladeshis went to Malaysia under government arrangement after signing the MoU in 2012.  
That is why the two countries have agreed on manpower recruitment under private arrangement to help increase the outflow of manpower to Malaysia.
The Southeast Asian country needs a large number of foreign workers for its different sectors like plantation, manufacturing and service.
Recently, thousands of Bangladeshi jobseekers have fallen victim to human traffickers who smuggled them to Malaysia and Thailand through sea route with promise of lucrative jobs.
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