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Bangladesh opens more labor branches to help expats
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-10 16:01
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DHAKA - The Bangladeshi government has taken move to open seven more new labor branches at the country's missions abroad to ensure more welfare for the expatriate workers, a senior official said Monday.
The official of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas employment said that steps are under way to set up the branches in Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Sudan and Saudi Arabia.
He said country's Ministry of Establishment has already approved a proposal of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas employment for opening the seven new labor wings which was also earlier approved by the cabinet.
The proposal is now waiting for the country's Finance Ministry' s approval, the official said.
Apart from this, he said the Bangladesh government has recently opened a labor branch in the war-ravaged Iraq to pave the way for sending manpower to the country.
Currently, the South Asian country, one of the leading manpower exporting nations of the world, has 13 labor branches at missions abroad to look after the welfare of the expatriate Bangladeshis and encourage them to send home more remittances through formal channels.
Nearly six million non-resident Bangladeshis, living and working over 100 foreign countries, sent home over $9.19 billion during July-April period of the current 2009-10 fiscal year (July 2009-June 2010), the central bank of Bangladesh said early this month.
