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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday laid emphasis on exploring overseas employment opportunities in new countries and sending skilled workforce there.
The prime minister urged expatriate Bangladeshis to send remittance to the country through legal channels.
She also asked the officials concerned to look into the matters so that Bangladeshi expatriate workers stay well and encourage them to send remittance using legal channels.
The premier came up with the statement while delivering the introductory speech at the second meeting of the national steering committee on expatriates' welfare and overseas employment at her official residence Ganabhaban, reports BSS.
"We have to find new employment areas and new countries (for sending workforce). We will arrange befitting training (for the workers) that a country needs," she said.
Mentioning that the government has already started sending workers to a few new countries, she said, "We have to send skilled workforce and that is why we've arranged multipurpose training facilities for our workers."
"If we can send skilled workforce through proper training, we have a big opportunity to attain economic solvency," she added.
According to UNB, the prime minister stressed the need for ensuring that seekers of jobs abroad must not fall prey to the frauds and middlemen.
“So we always have to consider that these people could go abroad through proper channel and get appropriate job. It is very much important for us to ensure that these people must not fall prey to the fraudulent people and middlemen,” she said.
The PM mentioned that sometimes it is seen that people are selling their houses and lands to pay the unscrupulous middlemen and fraudulent persons for a job abroad.
She put emphasis on creating public awareness against going abroad for jobs through middlemen.
During the heavy pressure on economy for coronavirus pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war, the income of the expatriates contributed a lot in the country's reserve and overall development, said the prime minister.