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Manpower export to Malaysia uncertain

Kuala Lumpur wants to settle illegal workers' issue first

RAFIQ HASAN
The prospect of large scale manpower export to Malaysia has become somewhat uncertain as Kuala Lumpur is considering legalisation or deportation of around half a million illegal foreign workers staying in that country.
Kuala Lumpur has informed Dhaka it will resume fresh recruitment after legalising or deporting illegal workers, according to sources in the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment.
"If Malaysia legalises or gives work permit to illegal workers, the possibil-
ity of large scale manpower export to it is very poor. In that case, not more than 50,000 workers can be exported there, " said a high official of the ministry.
Earlier, the government had estimated several lakh workers would get employment in Malaysia once fresh recruitment started.
Malaysia however is likely to send a list of training centres through which manpower recruitment will be allowed, the official said.
Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur signed an agreement on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh in October last year.
Meanwhile, private recruiting
agencies and overseas job seekers have become frustrated over the delay in recruitment even after the signing of the agreement. "We have been preparing to export manpower to Malaysia since October last but it is yet to start. Many job seekers already deposited money with recruiting agencies and have been waiting for long," said a recruiting agent.
Expatriate welfare ministry sources however said Kuala Lumpur has not yet resumed manpower import from any of the countries with which it signed agreements last year. They however ruled out any
links between Bangladesh's candidature for the post of secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the delay in manpower export to Malaysia, which also contested for the post.
"We never received any indication from Kuala Lumpur that it has reservations about Bangladesh following its contesting the OIC post," a top official said.
Malaysia stopped recruiting fresh workers from Bangladesh in 1997 following influx of a large number of undocumented workers.
Around 1.13 lakh Bangladeshis are now working in Malaysia and their job tenure has been renewed for another five years.
In mid-90s, about half a million Bangladeshis got jobs in that country and most of them came back home in 2002 in the wake of a crackdown on illegal workers.