?During our visit, we will request the Malaysian government to recruit workers from Bangladesh,? Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training Director General Shamsun Nahar told daily sun Thursday.
The six-member team is scheduled to hold a meeting with the human resource minister and the home minister of Malaysia as the recruitment process remained stopped for about four years, sources at the ministry said.
The delegation includes the BMET director general, an additional secretary to the home ministry, the project director of machine readable passport, the managing director of the Expatriates? Welfare Bank and the personal secretary to the minister.
Dhaka will request Kuala Lumpur to include Bangladesh as worker-source country, the source said, adding that there are over 10 source countries from which Malaysia regularly hires workers. Bangladesh being a Muslim country is still not a source country.
?It depends on the government of Malaysia to reopen the market or not. The issue will come to the discussion table,? Mantu Kumar Biswas, Bangladesh labour councilor in Malaysia, told daily sun over phone Thursday.
Following a proposal of the Malaysian government to recruit workers from Bangladesh, the BMET DG said, ?We have taken preparations to send our workers.?
During a recent visit of a Malaysian delegation to Bangladesh, they expressed their willingness to recruit Bangladeshi workers under the government arrangement.
BMET officials alleged that the labour market for Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia was not reopened as the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) doesn?t want recruitment process under the government arrangement.
?No no, I am not aware of such a matter. Malaysia is not recruiting workers from any country,? Shamsun Nahar said.
Bypassing a query on the allegation, Baira secretary-general Ali Haidar Chowdhury said, ?I want Bangladeshi workers to go Malaysia as soon as possible?.
Malaysia had stopped recruiting workers from Bangladesh in 2009 following some irregularities in the recruitment process. On 10 March 2009, Malaysia had cancelled 55,000 visas of Bangladeshi workers.
It was also alleged that the recruitment agencies in Bangladesh had sent 15 workers in need of one worker to Malaysia.
Earlier, the government had initiated a move to regularise the undocumented foreign workers, as a large number of foreign workers were illegally staying in Malaysia.
The sources at BMET said the Malaysian authorities had regularised 267,000 undocumented Bangladeshi workers.
Source: daily-sun.com
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