DHAKA, Dec 29, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladesh sent 9,91,713 workers overseas with employment abroad from January 1 to December 28, 2024.

"The trend of overseas employment is satisfactory as 9,91,713 job seekers went abroad with employment till December 28," an official of Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) told BSS today.

He said out of the total overseas job seekers, 9,31,533 were male and 60,180 were female went abroad with employment during the stipulated period.

According to the Bangladesh Bank's latest data, expatriate Bangladeshis sent over US$2 billion remittances during the first 21 days of December in the 2024-25 fiscal year.

For the fiscal year, July-November worker-remittance inflows stood at $11.14 billion, reflecting around a 26 percent increase compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year, it said.

Talking to BSS Deputy Director (ongoing charge) of BMET Mohammad Jahirul Alam Majumder said the inflow of remittance is tremendously increased as expatriates income also increased for the last nine consecutive months.

He said even then, a record amount of remittance came to Bangladesh in the current year.

"We've been working to increase number of overseas migrant workers as well as ensure the rights and protection of them," the BMET officer said.
Experts said that expatriates have sent the money saved from their regular necessary and other costs to the country.

They said the government to invest in developing need-based skilled manpower like nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers, as its demand would increase in many countries.

The government set up many training centres in different districts along with skill development programmes to create skilful jobseekers.

 Job seekers usually get various trainings including diploma in ship building engineering, refrigeration and air-conditioning, general mechanics, electrical machine maintenance, auto CAD 2D and 3D, welding (6G), catering, mason, Korean, Arabic, canton, Japanese language and others.

The government also encouraged documented overseas employment, as an important component of earning foreign currency.

Earlier, the government declared the overseas employment sector as a "thrust sector" with maximum stress upon further expanding job markets for the Bangladeshi job seekers abroad.