Reviewing migration process to ensure transparency stressed

FE Report Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain stressed the need for reviewing the migration process to ensure transparency as well as development of the sector. "We can set a strong precedence here today concerning the orderly ways of migration, and can rest assured that more migrants will follow suit," the minister also said. He said these at a conference on 'Consultation on the Reintegration and Remigration of Bangladeshi Returnees from Libya' on Wednesday. The conference was organised by International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The minister said as the situation in Libya continues to stabilise, the government will remain actively engaged in facilitating the return of as many workers as possible. IOM Regional coordinator and adviser for South Asia and chief of Mission Rabab Fatima, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Anisul Islam Mahmud, among others, were present at the programme. We have successfully completed the cash disbursement programme of the IOM which gave subsistence grant of Tk 50,000 to each of the 35,937 returnees, said Rabab Fatima. She also said it was not possible to send back all the returnees to Libya. "That means other destinations have to be found out to solve the problem", she added.