UK curry industry holds out huge scope of jobs for Bangladeshis
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Bangladeshi restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) require a huge number of workers to meet the growing demand of caterers for spicy dishes, reports BSS.
Bangladeshi-born British citizens are running nearly 12,000 restaurants in the UK and around 85,000 workers have been engaged in these restaurants.
Leaders of Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) of Surrey of the UK, one of the oldest British-Bangladeshi associations, established in 1960, said this while talking to the news agency recently.
The leaders said Bangladesh can earn millions of pound sterling as remittance by exporting skilled manpower for Bangladeshi restaurants in the UK every year.
'At present about 20,000 to 25,000 workers are needed in the restaurants,' they said, adding that setting up of an international standard catering institute is essential in Bangladesh to create skilled caterers. BCA President Mohammad Abdul Malik said the catering profession would be very attractive for Bangladeshi youths if proper steps are taken in this regard.
He said the Bangladeshi restaurant owners in the UK have been facing a serious shortage of manpower as they could not recruit new workers from Bangladesh due to the new immigration policy adopted by the British government.
Bangladeshi-born British citizens are running nearly 12,000 restaurants in the UK and around 85,000 workers have been engaged in these restaurants.
Leaders of Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) of Surrey of the UK, one of the oldest British-Bangladeshi associations, established in 1960, said this while talking to the news agency recently.
The leaders said Bangladesh can earn millions of pound sterling as remittance by exporting skilled manpower for Bangladeshi restaurants in the UK every year.
'At present about 20,000 to 25,000 workers are needed in the restaurants,' they said, adding that setting up of an international standard catering institute is essential in Bangladesh to create skilled caterers. BCA President Mohammad Abdul Malik said the catering profession would be very attractive for Bangladeshi youths if proper steps are taken in this regard.
He said the Bangladeshi restaurant owners in the UK have been facing a serious shortage of manpower as they could not recruit new workers from Bangladesh due to the new immigration policy adopted by the British government.