Bangladesh has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iraq to send 30,000 workers to the war-ravaged Middle Eastern nation.
Details of the kind of employment have not been finalised.
Expatriates’ Welfare and Foreign Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and visiting Iraqi Labour Minister Naser Al Rubayet singed the MoU on Saturday in Dhaka.
Ministry officials said another Iraqi delegation would visit Bangladesh on Sep 8 before recruitment of the workers start.
They said these workers would be chosen from among the 1.45 million of those enlisted as ‘interested to go abroad’ with the government.
They will be sent in phases, said the ministry officials.
The registration was done to send workers to Malaysia on a government to government (G2G) arrangement.
Thousands of workers have already been sent to Malaysia.
However, the ministry officials said the nature of jobs and salaries were yet to be finalised with the Iraqis.
Manpower is one of Bangladesh’s top export and earnings from remittances send in by expatriates the second largest foreign exchanger earner after garment exports.
Source: bdnews24
