The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Leaders of Coalition of Local NGO's, Bangladesh (CLNB) yesterday called upon the government to formulate a policy for manpower export from the country.

They demanded it at a press conference held at Alliance of Sramik Federation office at city's Topkhana area. The CLNB organised the press conference.

Harun-ur-Rasid, President of CLNB said that the employment prospect of our worker in Korea and European countries have become bleak due to bureaucratic inefficiency.

"Only 12,500 applicants, out of 87,000 have finally succeed to register their names to get job opportunity in Korea recently due to bureaucratic hassle," he alleged.

"Around 50,000 applicants of Nepal have been able to get their final registration to get job opportunity in Korea without language test whereas Bangladesh government took language test from the applicants," he informed.

Due to complex policy of the government, huge number of job seekers of Bangladesh have failed to get job opportunity in Korea and European countries, he added.

Leaders of CLNB placed a set of proposals including appointing a special assistant of chief adviser to expand the manpower market of the country, appoint skilled persons at the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE), withdraw corrupt employees from EWOE etc.

CLNB will hand over memorandum to the chief adviser to meet their demands on October 4 in this regard.

General Secretary of Bangladesh Alliance of Garments Sramik Federation Moin Uddin Mandal, General Secretary of Bangladesh Landless Sameti, SCOP leader Harunar Rasid Bhuyan addressed at the press conference.