The Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training has received the visa clearance for sending 200 workers to Malaysia, officials said on Monday.
They said that BMET received the clearance from the human resources department of the Malaysian government.
The Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment is trying hard to arrange the first flight for the Malaysia bound workers on April 17.
After receiving the visa confirmation from Kuala Lumpur, the officials said the selected workers had been informed about it through mobile phone SMS.
They said that the workers had been asked deposit the money for air tickets and submit the necessary documents.
On Monday many of the selected workers were seen submitting their passports, other documents, photographs, medical, training and conduct certificates at the concerned desk at BMET.
A Probashi Kalyan Bank official said 125 Malaysia bound workers already deposited the money with PKB on Monday for buying their air tickets.
Russel, 23, from Hajeeganj in Chandpur told New Age on Monday that he received the
SMS on Saturday asking him to submit the documents and Tk 35,000 as airfare.
He said that accordingly he came to the BMET office to deposit the money.
BMET director Md Mizanur Rahman said that the bureau started collecting the documents from the Malaysia bound workers after getting the visa clearance from KL.
The information about the visa clearance was also provided by the Malaysian High Commission in Dhaka that would issue visa to the workers after they hand in their passports, he said.
Ministry officials said as the expatriate welfare and overseas employment minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain was scheduled to attend the 5th Budapest Process Ministerial Conference to be held in Istanbul between April 18 and 23, the ministry was trying to arrange the first flight on April 17.
Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry secretary Jafar Ahmed Khan told New Age that efforts were on send the first flight before
the minister leaves for Istanbul.
The employers in Malaysia deposited the levies of 200 workers with their government, he said.
The rest of the about 10,000 selected workers would start leaving the country after getting clearance from the recipient country, he said.
The workers would be sent to Malaysia under government to government arrangements under a memorandum of understanding the two countries signed on November 26, 2012 to keep the recruitment agencies out of the process, said officials.
The MoU set the migration cost of each worker at Tk 40,000.
It also set the minimum wage of a worker at Tk 25,000. (Source)
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