Increase capacity to send migrant workers
Malaysian team urges Bangladesh
Malaysia thinks Bangladesh should increase its capacity in recruitment of overseas jobseekers in the Southeast Asian country.
The visiting Malaysian delegation told Bangladesh officials this at a meeting at the conference room of Bangladesh Overseas Employment Services Limited (BOESL) on Sunday night, said meeting sources.
During a meeting with the home ministry officials, the delegation yesterday requested to help stop illegal immigration from Bangladesh, as it is a problem in Malaysia.
A six-member delegation led by Malaysian Home Ministry Senior Deputy Secretary General Dato Raja Azahar bin Raja Abdul Manap arrived in Dhaka on Saturday to check the immigration procedures in Bangladesh.
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan said earlier there was a lot of malpractice in the labour recruitment process, which led to a freeze early 2009.
So Malaysia now wants to recruit Bangladeshi workers through state arrangements, he noted.
In this backdrop, the Malaysian delegation on Sunday night, during a visit to BOESL, said BOESL sent less than 4,000 workers in 2010 and fewer in the previous years, an official of the expatriates' welfare ministry told The Daily Star.
On contact, BOESL Managing Director Md Abdullah said the issue was not raised that prominently.
However, it is true that government as a whole and BOESL did not send workers abroad in large numbers, he said.
"But, if we get more work, we will surely increase our capacity," he added.
There are around 5 lakh Bangladeshis in Malaysia, most of whom are irregular, told delegation members to the home ministry, quoted Abdullah.
Zafar said they requested the Malaysian delegation to regularise the present irregular Bangladeshi workers.
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