A total of 120 Bangladeshi workers have left the country for Malaysia by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight yesterday morning.
“The flight, with 120 Bangladeshi workers, has left the airport at 7am,” Zahidul Islam, assistant director of Expatriat Dest at Shahjalal International Airport in the capital, told the Dhaka Tribune.
A total of 244 migrant workers are scheduled to fly for Kuala Lumpur. Of them, 120 have left for Malaysia yesterday and the rest are set to go on April 24 to work in the plantation sector in Malaysia, 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 the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training, 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 governments of Bangladesh and Malaysia have signed an MoU on November 26 to send the workers to Malaysia under the G2G system.
