Bangladesh source for quality human resources

Bangladesh has exported a huge number of quality human resources to 157 countries including 67 new destinations in the world.

Currently, there are around nine million Bangladesh nationals living abroad, while 4,25,684 migrants went overseas for employment in 2014.

Saudi Arabia has always been the most valued destination to Bangladesh.

passport BdIn this respect, the two brotherly countries have enriched and formalized new vista of bilateral arrangements in the area of human resource cooperation.

The government of Bangladesh has enacted several laws and regulations as well as taken various other measures to promote safe and decent migration for Bangladesh nationals.

Policy for quality human resource migration:

Considering the importance of the export of high quality human resource, the government of Bangladesh has adopted the Overseas Employment and Migration Act 2013, Overseas Employment Policy with the objective to expand the scope for overseas employment, to promote transparency and qualitative changes to the recruitment process and to combat the fraudulent activities and to reduce cost of migration which have got admiration from various recognized organizations for migration including IOM.

Around nine million Bangladesh expatriates including professors, doctors, engineers, teachers, bankers, information technology professionals, mariners, pharmacists, nurses, technicians, plumbers, and electricians are enhancing the image of their homeland in as many as 157 countries in the world with their quality service in respective professions.

Massive drive for skill development and quality human resources:

In Bangladesh, most of the population is in 15-49 age group.

This demographic dividend ensures availability of work force for existing and new destination around the world.

Bangladesh is developing high quality and skilled human resources by imparting training as per requirement of employers from home and abroad.

A large number of engineering and technology universities, medical university and colleges, agriculture university and institutes and other universities and colleges in both public and private sectors are offering high standard undergraduate and graduate degrees in different fields of engineering, agriculture, computer and medical sciences.

Every year around 20,000 students get medical graduation degrees, while around 1,500 dentist graduate from dental colleges.

Government and private nursing colleges are offering BSC and diplomas in nursing to around 7,000 persons every year.

A number of public and private sector institutions, NGOs and industry have been providing technical and vocational education and training (TVET).

To promote migration of skilled workers, the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) provides skills development training in 38 Technical Training Centers (TTCs) in 45 trades namely, plastic technology, auto mechanics, machine tools operation, auto electrician, mechanical drafting with CAD, auto CAD, armature and motor winding, welding and fabrication, civil construction, rod binder, tiles fixer, mason, carpenter, catering, hotel management, computer office application, graphics design and networking.

The TTCs currently train about 65,000 candidates a year.

High quality selection process:

As a major worker-sending country in the world, Bangladesh is committed to employ the best method to screen the qualified and dependable candidates for overseas job opportunities.

Bangladesh has introduced 3 tier screening system for migrant workers which includes providing them Local Certification, Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and Smart Card.

The antecedents of the aspirant workers are verified by Police before issuing MRPs and finally all documents are verified by the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) before giving immigration clearance and smart card.

An attractive source for recruitment for Saudi Arabia:

Bangladesh is a valued source for human resource recruitment in the Kingdom.

Around 1.5 million Bangladeshis are currently employed in the Kingdom which positively contributes to enhanced people to people contacts between Bangladesh and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Taking the fact into consideration, the government of Bangladesh has been taking extra measures in fulfilling the conditions of the Saudi recruiting policy.

These extra measures as adopted in the policy guidelines by the Government of Bangladesh are strictly followed from the workers selection process to their final departure for the Kingdom.

In 2013, the government of Saudi Arabia declared the general amnesty from 10 March to Nov. 3, 2013. It was a great gesture of the government of the Kingdom to allow Bangladesh nationals to get their iqama transferred and professions changed.

Enhancement of image of Bangladesh expatriates:

To maintain the good will of Bangladesh nationals and enhance it further, the Embassy of Bangladesh in Riyadh and the Consulate General in Jeddah have increased their communications with Saudi ministries, deportation centers, police stations, courts as well as diplomats from other labor sending countries. Bangladesh Missions have taken extensive programs such as open house, free discussion and meeting in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and other major cities of Saudi Arabia to motivate the Bangladeshi people to refrain from activities that tarnish the image of Bangladesh and urge them to work unitedly to enhance the image of Bangladesh.

As a result of the motivational programs in different parts of Saudi Arabia, crime rates among the Bangladesh nationals have reduced to a great extent.

As per latest information received from the Saudi Ministry of Interior, the total number of crimes committed by Bangladesh nationals has reduced from 21,000 in 2009 to 3,549 in 2014.

The government of Saudi Arabia has highly appreciated the quality of Bangladesh expatriates residing in the Kingdom.

For several decades, Bangladesh has remained as an attractive place for recruiting quality human resource for more than hundred countries in the world.

With its commitment to safe and decent migration through high quality human resource migration, Bangladesh is continually marching forward with a huge number of quality candidates to meet the demand of the employers worldwide.

Bangladesh’s quality expatriates’ are contributing to the socio-economic development of the host countries, in process they are contributing to the development of their homeland.

Saudi Arabia has maintained Bangladesh as a significant source for its huge demand of human resource requirement for its gigantic socio-economic development projects.

With time tested and deep rooted relations between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia, these two brotherly countries are in the right track to get the best out of close cooperation in the area of human resources.

-arabnews


Share: