KSA deports another 132 Bangladeshis
Some 132 Bangladeshi migrant workers, including five females, were deported by the Saudi authorities in the last two days.
Two flights of Saudia Airlines carrying the workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka early yesterday and Tuesday night, according to Brac Migration Programme.
With them, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has deported 767 Bangladeshi workers, including 40 females, in the first week of January, it says.
After arrival of the latest deportees, officials of Brac along with Prabashi Kalyan Desk set by the expatriates’ welfare ministry at the airport provided them with immediate support, including food and drinking water.
Besides, Brac has taken an initiative to provide the returnees with counselling and financialsupport.
Of the deportees, many alleged that although their employers were supposed to arrange residence permits for them, the employers did not do so, said a Brac official, quoting the returnees.
The employers asked for their deportation to Bangladesh when police detained the workers, he said.
Confirming the returnees’ number, Shariful Islam Hasan, head of Brac Migration Programme, said it was the responsibility of all stakeholders to stand by the “failed” migrant workers.
It falls upon the state and the Bangladesh mission concerned to ensure migrant workers do not return home after being deceived in the Gulf country, he said.
They have to ensure migrant workers get their promised jobs there and have the opportunity to change their fortunes, he added.
Recruiting agencies also have to play their due role to this end, he said.
Until mid-November last year, the Middle eastern country deported about 22,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers after detaining them on different grounds, according to Brac data.
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