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Download PDF Manpower export figures from the year 2006 have doubled in 2007, according to statistics released by the foreign ministry yesterday.
The ministry also says that the Saudi government continues to import manpower from Bangladesh, contrary to recent media reports claiming otherwise.
The number of workers cleared to work overseas in 2007 was 8.32 lakh, up from 3.81 lakh in 2006, says a press release of the ministry.
Meanwhile, a total of 1.59 lakh workers have already left for work abroad in the first two months of the current year, compared to 78,000 in the same period last year.
The foreign ministry press release also says 20,200 workers have already gone for work to Saudi Arabia alone and the flow continues, adding that a Saudi company — a concern of Dallah Group — is currently recruiting semi-skilled and skilled professionals from Bangladesh.
The press release added that the government intends to make a number of high-level visits to Saudi Arabia to iron out the differences on manpower export issues. The ministry said they are stepping up efforts to reduce difficulties faced by Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia.
The ministry has meanwhile urged Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia to work in a way “that the host government is not unduly embarrassed.”
Recently Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus in a recent visit to Saudi Arabia said that Bangladeshis do not break the law more than other communities in the desert kingdom, which is the destination for the highest numbers of Bangladeshi workers.
A number of reports have appeared in the Saudi media alleging eight Bangladeshi workers have been convicted of the murder of an Egyptian worker.
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