A total of 120 Bangladeshi migrants have left Bangladesh for Malaysia by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight on Tuesday morning.
“The flight, with 120 Bangladeshi workers, has left the airport at 7am,” Zahidul Islam, assistant director of Expatriat Dest at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital, has told the Dhaka Tribune.
A total of 244 migrant workers are scheduled to fly for Kuala Lumpur. Of them, 120 have left for Malaysia on Tuesday and the rest of them is set to go on April 24 to work in the plantation sector of that country, he said.
The cost for each migrant worker was estimated at Tk24,000 but sources said the cost came down further when Biman agreed to transport the Malaysia-bound workers.
According to BMET, around 3,352 workers out of 10,000 selected thus far have left Dhaka for Malaysia to work in the plantation sector under government-to-government arrangements.
The government of Bangladesh and the government of Malaysia have signed a MoU on November 26 to send the workers to Malaysia under the G2G system.
