Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday informed parliament that more than 4.28 lakh workers had gone abroad in the current fiscal year.
“A total of 4,28,186 workers have gone abroad in 2014-15 fiscal year. Of them, 32% are skilled, while 14% are semi-skilled and 54% low-skilled,” he said responding to a query in the budget discussion in parliament.
The minister said the oversees job seekers are being trained up on 48 trades in the 51 training institutions in various districts under the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) which is capable of training up 1.15 lakh people a year, he added.
Responding to another query, the minister said Bangladesh sent 76,006 female workers to various countries in the current fiscal year.
“Some 3.93 lakh female workers were sent to various countries from 1991 to May 2015,” he said.
Replying to another query, Mosharrafsaid some 30.75 lakh Bangladeshi workers got overseas jobs from January 2009 to May 2015.
He also said the remittance from the manpower export had increased over the years and the amount of remittance went up to US$14.93 billion in 2014.