Wednesday, November 11, 2009
SOURCE: UNB, Dhaka
Most of about 30,000 Bangladeshis living in Greece migrated through illegal ways, but the Greek government now agreed to give a chance for their registration.
Labour, Employment and Expatriates' Welfare Minister Engineer
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Tuesday informed journalists about the development after his visit to Greece where he attended a four-day seminar on ‘Global Forum on Migration and Development’.
The minister said his counterpart of Greece proposed to him to give a
chance for registration of the workers to get legality.
“About 10/15 thousand Bangladeshis would get registration card and continue their professional work without any hazard in this process,” he told the newsmen at his secretariat office.
Mosharraf said he discussed the matter with Bangladeshi workers and they agreed to take the opportunity.
The minister also informed that he had proposed to the Greek government import of trained manpower in shipping, agriculture, garment, tourism and hospitality sectors of that country.
“In reply to my proposal, Greece has agreed to send an expert team to
Bangladesh to scrutinise those sectors’ training facilities,” he said.
Mosharraf said that his government has sent about 4.13 lakh workers to different countries in last ten months and more than one lakh are prepared to go while 3.71 lakh workers went abroad in 2006 during the same time.
