Overseas employment sector declared thrust sector: Minister

The government has declared the overseas employment sector as the “thrust sector” with maximum stress upon further expanding job markets for the Bangladeshi job seekers abroad, reports BSS. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam, BSc yesterday said this adding, the government has already undertaken a plan to construct vocational training centres at every upazila across the country with a view to sending trained Bangladeshi workers abroad.
“Meanwhile, the government provided training to 1.15 lakh workers in 2014 through 6 institutes of marine technology and 47 vocational training centres across the country,” he said, while replying to a question from treasury bench member M Abdullah of Luxmipur-4 constituency in the House yesterday. He said the present government is sending Bangladeshi job seekers to a total of 160 countries up from only 97 countries during the past four-party alliance government.
 “This means the present government is holding the current job markets abroad for the Bangladeshis side by side with expanding new markets,” he said. Considering vocational training an important component of the workers, the minister said the construction of 17 vocational training centres are about to be complete shortly. “A total of 1,50,000 workers would be trained annually in different trades through all the training centers including the 17 new ones,” he also said.

Overseas employment sector declared thrust sector: Minister

The government has declared the overseas employment sector as the thrust sector with maximum stress upon further expanding job markets for the Bangladeshi job seekers abroad, reports BSS. Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam, BSc yesterday said this adding, the government has already undertaken a plan to construct vocational training centres at every upazila across the country with a view to sending trained Bangladeshi workers abroad. Meanwhile, the government provided training to 1.15 lakh workers in 2014 through 6 institutes of marine technology and 47 vocational training centres across the country, he said, while replying to a question from treasury bench member M Abdullah of Luxmipur-4 constituency in the House yesterday. He said the present government is sending Bangladeshi job seekers to a total of 160 countries up from only 97 countries during the past four-party alliance government. This means the present government is holding the current job markets abroad for the Bangladeshis side by side with expanding new markets, he said. Considering vocational training an important component of the workers, the minister said the construction of 17 vocational training centres are about to be complete shortly. A total of 1,50,000 workers would be trained annually in different trades through all the training centers including the 17 new ones, he also said.