Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry or Sunday organized a seminar on ‘Low Costs and Safe migration: Responsibility of Citizens’ at the CIRDAP Auditorium in the city.
Representatives from government and non-government organizations who attended the seminar called upon taking immediate steps to stop the visa trading to facilitate the sending of workers abroad under the low cost of migration.
They observed that the rackets of brokers from home and abroad were involved in visa trading over the years and they have been playing active role in increasing migration cost for the poor outbound workers from Bangladesh.
EWOE ministry’s secretary Nomita Halder who presided over the seminar said that skilled and trained workers would have to be sent abroad to ensure the safe migration.
‘The skilled workers are hardly falling victims of cheating and other problems,’ she said.
Migrant rights campaigners and WARBE Development Foundation’s chairman Syed Saiful Haque said that Bangladeshi workers were forced to pay the highest cost for migration due to visa trading taking place in the Kingdom londontoto of Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
He urged the government to take protective measures for the country’s migrant workers in light with the spirit of the migration policy which was adopted in 2016.
Recruiting agent and SA Trading proprietor Abdul Alim said that any type of syndicate in sending workers to Malaysia and other countries must be stopped to help ensure orderly migration.
‘If workers go abroad after learning required languages of the country of destinations, they can earn more without facing any problems there,’ he said.
Managing Director of M/S. Merit Trade International Ltd Hasan Ahmed Chowdhury Kiron said that the country’ mass media have been playing their vital role as the watchdog to ensure transparency and accountability in labour migration sector.
Two outgoing migrants…Foysal Miah of Mymensingh and Mosammat Lylee from Lalmonirhat… shared their experience at the seminar.
Senior officials from EWOE ministry and Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, Wage Earners Welfare Board and other subordinate departments, representatives of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies and migrants rights group organizations and media houses took part in the discussion.
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