Half a million overseas jobs by year- end

Bangladesh is going to send some 5 lakh job- seekers abroad by this
year-end, as new overseas job markets are being found out by the
government. Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engr
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said yesterday, sounding a note of warning
against any fraud on the part of manpower exporters. "Of them, Saudi
Arabia will take some two lakh Bangladeshis after the beginning of
their six mega-city projects and Iraq take more than 1 lakh," the
minister told a meeting at the city's Bureau of Manpower, Employment
and Training . The labour and employment and expatriate welfare and
overseas employment ministry organised the meeting with the Sramik-
Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SKOP) leaders. "The government has moved to
sign an agreement with its labour-market countries to settle a
minimum plane fare and other facilities with Bangladesh," said the
minister.