Manpower export to Qatar likely to get momentum
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
FE Report
The country's manpower export to Qatar, one of the largest overseas job markets of Bangladesh, is expected to get momentum after a scheduled visit of the Gulf country's labour minister to Dhaka next month, sources said.
They said a high-powered government delegation of oil rich Qatar will arrive in the city on January 6 on a two-day visit.
An eighteen-member delegation, led by Labour and Social affairs Minister, Sultan Bin Hasan Al-Dhabit Al-Dosari, will also comprise senior officials of the Qatar's government, which is expected to discuss entire gamut of bilateral relations including manpower export issue, sources said.
A senior official of Bangladesh's Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (MEWOE) said Qatar and Bangladesh are likely to sign an additional protocol to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed in 1988 on manpower export.
He said the additional protocol is aimed at bringing discipline and transparency in manpower recruitment process.
"We are hopeful that manpower export to Qatar in future will further increase. The export declined during the last few years for various reasons," another official source said.
He said Qatar requires huge number of skilled and unskilled workforce to support its booming infrastructure development work and farming sector.
The official said the Qatari delegation might request the government to stop illegal influx of manpower to that country and check fraud and forgeries in recruitment process.
He said the Qatari minister is expected to call on president, chief adviser, chief of army staff and foreign adviser and also in charge of the MEWOE during his two-day visit.
According to the statistics of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), so far 116,482 Bangladeshis got employment in Qatar. Of which, 13,109 Bangladeshis joined the job market in Qatar during the first eleven months (January-November) of this year.
Bangladesh received $ 5.31 billion as remittance from different countries of the world during the January-November period of this calendar year.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and Qatar are the major countries from where Bangladesh receives the highest amount of remittances.
The country's manpower export to Qatar, one of the largest overseas job markets of Bangladesh, is expected to get momentum after a scheduled visit of the Gulf country's labour minister to Dhaka next month, sources said.
They said a high-powered government delegation of oil rich Qatar will arrive in the city on January 6 on a two-day visit.
An eighteen-member delegation, led by Labour and Social affairs Minister, Sultan Bin Hasan Al-Dhabit Al-Dosari, will also comprise senior officials of the Qatar's government, which is expected to discuss entire gamut of bilateral relations including manpower export issue, sources said.
A senior official of Bangladesh's Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (MEWOE) said Qatar and Bangladesh are likely to sign an additional protocol to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed in 1988 on manpower export.
He said the additional protocol is aimed at bringing discipline and transparency in manpower recruitment process.
"We are hopeful that manpower export to Qatar in future will further increase. The export declined during the last few years for various reasons," another official source said.
He said Qatar requires huge number of skilled and unskilled workforce to support its booming infrastructure development work and farming sector.
The official said the Qatari delegation might request the government to stop illegal influx of manpower to that country and check fraud and forgeries in recruitment process.
He said the Qatari minister is expected to call on president, chief adviser, chief of army staff and foreign adviser and also in charge of the MEWOE during his two-day visit.
According to the statistics of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), so far 116,482 Bangladeshis got employment in Qatar. Of which, 13,109 Bangladeshis joined the job market in Qatar during the first eleven months (January-November) of this year.
Bangladesh received $ 5.31 billion as remittance from different countries of the world during the January-November period of this calendar year.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and Qatar are the major countries from where Bangladesh receives the highest amount of remittances.