Bangladesh sends 53 workers to Malaysia after 4yrs

Bangladesh on early Tuesday sent its first batch of 53 migrant workers to Malaysia after nearly four years of suspension.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment ministry’s spokesperson Md Rasheduzzaman said that the workers left the country from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Recruiting agency Catharsis International sent the workers to join in Jimat Jaya SDN BHD company.

Officials of the ministry said that they had allowed so far 19 recruiting agencies in the country to send 3,022 workers.

Rest of the workers will leave the country by phases.

Director general of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training Shahidul Alam, Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies former president Benjir Ahmed, Catharsis International proprietor Ruhul Amin Swapon, among others, saw the workers off at Dhaka Airport.

The recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia has remained suspended since September 2018.

To open the market, the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2021, but the recruitment could not be resumed due to disagreement over the selection of recruiting agents.

On June 2, Bangladesh’s expatriates’ welfare minister Imran Ahmed, after a Joint Working Group meeting in Dhaka with Malaysian human resource minister Datuk Seri M Saravanan, announced to resume sending workers by June.