Registration of overseas job seekers mandatory from tomorrow

The Minister for Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Quamrul Islam inaugurated the programme at separate functions at the BMET and BAIRA. The registration of the overseas job seekers has been made mandatory with effect from tomorrow.

The computer experts of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) developed the software of the database which would work as complementary to the public and private sector.

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Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Dalil Uddin Mondal and BAIRA President Mosharraf Hossain MP also addressed the functions.

Inaugurating the programme, Quamrul urged the recruiting agents to take initiative to increase salary of the expatriate workers and take care to ensure their safety.

Responding to the BAIRA's demand for reduction in the deposit, he said Tk 50 lakh deposit was kept for compensation to any returnee female worker after being cheated abroad.

Only those companies will be allowed to send female workers who give proper training to them and can ensure their security, he said.

He also urged the recruiters to be alerted about the job hopping and overstay abroad even after expiry of the job tenure which tarnish image of the country. He assured the private recruiting farms of full support from the government to run the training institutes.

The database aims to record all pertinent information of persons, from highly skilled professionals to labourers, who intended to be employed abroad. The database has also been posted on website and anybody can access it from anywhere in the world.

The recruiting agents have been instructed to select workers only from the database, sources said.

The information in the database will also help identify nominees of the dead expatriates correctly and ease legal complications.