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•No fear of immediate deportation of Bangladeshi workers from KSA'

By M Anwarul Haq and Reaz Ahmad
Fear of deportation gradually receded as overseas workers staying in Saudia Arabia without legal papers continued to collect travel documents and exit passes for returning home, according to reports received in Dhaka yesterday.
At least 10,000 Bangladeshis are now waiting to be airlifted or sent back home by ships after a grace period offered t>y the Saudi government to the overstayers or illegals' expired on October 16.
Sixty Bangladeshis living In far flung areas of the Kingdom turned up at the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh yesterday and collected passports. Later, they reported to the Saudi office concerned to get exit passes, said Abdul Momin Chowdhury. Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, over telephone last night.
Responding to a question If the Bangladeshis would face le gal ordeal, the envoy said. I do not anticipate them to be in tail or face deportation because they have already received their traveled documents.
"They have already informed the Saudi authorities that they are going back home, so the question of prosecution as illegals do not arise There is no chance of crackdown on them, as they followed the rules." he said.
Earlier, some 10.000 Bangladeshis In the Kingdom went through the process over the last couple of days and 3,000 of them are staying in the deportation centres in Jeddah.
Explaining the situation, the Bangladesh envoy said only those who have no financial ability, to purchase tickets are reporting voluntarily to the de-
portation centres. All others who have the ability have either purchased air tickets or have been waiting to buy tickets to go back home, ne saw
Meanwhile, as the process of collecting travel documents was still on and thousands were waiting for availing homebound flights, the Labour and Manpower Ministry in Dhaka till yesterday failed to send any message or advice to the country's Embassy and the Consulate in Saudi Arabia.
Talking to The Dally Star yesterday. State Minister for Labour and Manpower MA Mannan said, "I will contact our Ambassador there tomorrow and discuss the latest development '
He admitted that Saudi government had much earlier informed us of a possible crackdown' on illegal immigrants or overstayers. But, he said, "it was not possible on our part to identify all of them scattered across the big country and bring them home beforehand."
About financial inability of many Bangladeshis to return home, the state minister said though there was a 'Welfare Funci’ it would not be much of a help as "We can't afford to bear the expenses for bringing all those Bangladeshis back." Saudi government is expected to make arrangements for sending them back, he added. He. however. did not confirm it.
"Most of them are overstayers. either they went with Um-rah-visa' or lost validity of stay for job-hopping", said Mannan, adding that "If we could afford return of 28,000 people from United Arab Emirates last year, we have to bear the pain of current situation also."
While both the ministry and the embassy feel the urgency of arranging special flights by
Bangladesh Biman to expedite return of 10.000 Bangladeshis from Saudi Arabia, Biman is not in a position to do so due to its own constraints, sources pointed out.
Two high officials of the national flag carrier told The Daily Star yesterday that despite tight international flight schedules. Bjman would make frantic efforts so that some special flights could be arranged from October 21. "If those flights are possible, those will be in addition to Biman's five regular Jeddah-Dhaka and Riyadh-Dhaka flights every week", said one official.
Out of four DC-10s and two Airbuses in Biman's fleet operating in international routes, one DC-10 would rejoin the fleet by October 31 after Delta Check' in Italy, another DC-10 would be pressed into service by tonight after completion of 'FA-Check' while an Airbus entered operation last night after engineers from France 'fixed the problems in fuel tank', he said.