The government has halted issuance of immigration clearance to Bangladeshis who aspire to go to Maldives for doing jobs, said officials of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).
“We have taken the decision as our workers do not get jobs after going there,” BMET director general Begum Shamsun Nahar told the Dhaka Tribune over phone on Monday. She also said the number of Bangladeshi nationals have reached to the maximum limit in Maldives which is a small country.
While talking to the Dhaka Tribune at his office on Sunday, Bangladesh Migrant Welfare Society executive director Haroon-or Rashid said a section of unscrupulous recruiting agencies send workers to Maldives but after few months they had to return empty handed.
BMET director (immigration) Abdul Latif Khan, however, claimed that incidents of cheating are minor in number.
“We have knowledge of one or two cases out of 100 migrants but they did not complain to us,” Latif told the Dhaka Tribune at his office on Sunday.
During the current year, about 8,000 Bangladeshi workers have gone to the Maldives, according to BMET statistics.
BMET data says about 28,000 Bangladeshi workers have so far gone to the Maldives since 1976.
