S Arabia to recruit more Bangladeshi workers
After a decline in the last three years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now looking to boost recruitment of manpower from Bangladesh.
A five-member delegation of Saudi Arabian National Recruitment Committee arrived in Dhaka to discuss the issue, officials in expatriates' welfare ministry said yesterday.
The delegation held a meeting with the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) at its office in the capital yesterday. The leaders of Saudi private recruitment agencies said they require a huge number of workers in various sectors.
Saudi Arabia will soon start recruiting more Bangladeshis, Baira Secretary General Ali Haider Chowdhury told The Daily Star after the meeting.
They need workers including domestic helps, personal drivers, doctors, engineers and many more, he added.
"However, one of our crucial issues in the meeting was reducing migration cost. The other was increasing the salaries of our people," Chowdhury said adding, the delegation members assured they would seriously look into the matters.
The Saudi team will hold meetings today with the Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and the officials of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET).
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