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Government change in KL delays manpower export from Dhaka

Star Business Report
Delay in preparing training module with the change of leadership in Malaysia is delaying in resumption of manpower export from Bangladesh, even after inking an agreement between the two coun-
tries some seven months back.
Sources in the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment in Dhaka attributed the delay to internal political development in the host country.
The new Malaysian government, which came to power in
March this year, is considering the issue with a new perspective which is delaying full flow of Bangladeshi workers into the east Asian country-
"Besides, Kuala Lumpur took much time to prepare a module of training for Bangladeshi workers
intending to get employed in Malaysia," an official in the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment said.
Two provinces of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarwak, had started recruiting Bangladeshis soon after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on manpower export between the two countries in October lastyear.
But so far only 95 Bangladeshis got jobs in these states and another 20-30 workers are in the pipeline, said a high official of the ministry. But recruitment in other states of the east Asian country did not begin.
The expatriate welfare ministry, however, hopes manpower export to Malaysia would resume in full swing in September-October this year on completion of training of a batch of Malaysia-bound workers.
The Malaysian government recently selected 16 private companies to supervise training of workers in Bangladesh before going to that country. Officials of the companies are likely to visit Bangladesh next month.
Malaysia became the second largest destination of Bangladeshi workers after Saudi Arabia in the mid-90s employing around half a million Bangladeshis.
In 1997, Kuala Lumpur stopped recruiting workers from Bangladesh for reportedly huge influx of undocumented workers there.
A large number of undocumented workers returned from Malaysia in 2000 following a crackdown on illegal workers there. Kuala Lumpur, however, extended the job contract of over 1 lakh Bangladeshi workers for another five years.