Qatar is expected to recruit 150,000 more workers from Bangladesh this year without migration fees.
“The Qatar government has approved the visas of 50,000 Bangladeshi workers in the last two months … we will be able to send another 150,000 workers to the country this year,” said Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday.
He was addressing a press briefing at Bangladesh Secretariat, following his recent 5-day visit to Qatar, which concluded on February 27. He had led a six-member Bangladesh delegation on that visit.
At a meeting with the delegation, Qatar Minister for Labour and Social Affairs Dr Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al Khulaifi said, they would recruit more workers for implementing different development projects ahead of World Cup 2022.
He said: “Usually, it takes Tk 3-4 lakh for migration to Qatar, but now the workers will be sent at zero cost. The recruiting companies will bear the expenses of the workers and the fees of the recruiting agencies.”
The recruiting companies will submit requisitions to the government through the embassy, and the government will then select workers from its database.
In reply to a question, he said the 50,000 workers, who have already received a visa, will be sent to the Arab country in the next 2-3 months.
Female job seekers’ registration
Begum Shamsun Nahar, Director General of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET), said the online registration for women workers willing to go abroad for jobs will begin on Thursday.
She said the registration process will begin with the Dhaka division, when the female job seekers would be able to register their names from March 5 to 11.
The process will continue from March 12 to 16 in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions, and then from March 17 to 23 in the Chittagong and Sylhet divisions, and from March 24 to 28 in Khulna and Barisal divisions.
The job seekers could apply for the categories of housekeeper, caregiver, babysitter, gardener, guard, cleaner, driver and cook.
The job seekers must be Bangladeshi citizens and aged between 25 and 45. Those who want to apply for caregiver, driver and babysitter posts must have SSC certificates.
