Shawdesh desk:

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday laid emphasis on exploring overseas employment opportunities in new countries and sending skilled workforce there, urging expatriate Bangladeshis to send remittance to the country through legal channels.

“We have to find new employment areas and new countries (for sending workforce). We will arrange befitting training (for the workers) that a country needs,” she said.

The Premier said this while delivering the introductory speech at the second meeting of the national steering committee on expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment at her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital.

Mentioning that the government has already started sending workers to a few new countries, she said “We have to send skilled workforce and that is why we’ve arranged multipurpose training facilities for our workers.”

“If we can send skilled workforce through proper training, we have a big opportunity to attain economic solvency,” she added.

She also asked the officials concerned to look into the matters so that Bangladeshi expatriate workers stay well and encourage them to send remittance using legal channels.