30,000 go to KL within 3 months
The government will send 30,000 workers to Kuala Lumpur within the next three months, officials told a parliamentary committee meeting yesterday.
The data of the workers will be forwarded to the Malaysian government by next month, they added.
The meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry was held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with its chairman Anisul Islam Mahmud in the chair.
The meeting was informed that the ministry had already sent clean data for 8,391 workers out of 10,000 to the Malaysian government after their final selection.
The committee recommended that the ministry take quick and effective steps for sending workers to Kuala Lumpur and remove complexity in Iqama [work permit] transfer of illegal Bangladeshi migrants in Saudi Arabia.
The meeting was also informed that the government had provided assistance to 2,44,519 migrants in Saudi Arabia.
In the next session of parliament, a bill seeking to bring amendments to the Expatriate Welfare Fund Act-2002 would be passed after it was approved by the cabinet, it was told.
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and other committee members were present at the meeting.
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