Kuwait may start hiring Bangladeshis

After more than seven years, Kuwait again may start hiring Bangladeshis with around 600 workers for its agriculture sector, said a top BMET official.
“We have received a demand letter of 593 workers, which is placed by a Kuwaiti company,” Begum Shamsun Nahar, director general of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, told reporters in the capital yesterday.
She also claimed that from now on Kuwait would recruit workers from Bangladesh on a regular basis.
Bangladesh embassy in Kuwait said the recruitment of around 600 workers was still under process. Due to various reasons, including irregularities done by the recruiting agencies and criminal activities by Bangladeshi migrant workers, Kuwait stopped recruitment from Bangladesh since October 2006.
According to the embassy, around 2,00,000 Bangladeshis are currently working in Kuwait.