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Govt to train overseas job seekers from 5 monga-hit districts

Porimol Palma
As part of its policy to ensure that people from all districts can equally avail overseas jobs, the government decided to train ultra poor youths of five monga-stricken nouliern districts with funds from Pally Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF).
These five districts are R a n g p u r. N i 1 p h a m a r i, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Gaibandha.
A recent inter-ministerial meeting also set a quota according to which recniiting agencies will have a binding to allocate 4 percent of the total overseas job demand to the skilled workers in these districts, said an official of the Ministry of Expatriates'Welfare and Overseas Employment.
Officials concerned said such a decision followed the chief adviser s directives to the ministry’ concerned to take measures to ensure that the
workforce of the region have more access to jobs abroad to improve their livingstandard.
L) u e importance was Attached to the monga issue Juring the Advisory Council’s recent meeting in Rangpur.
Monga is a famine-like situa-ion that happens during the month of October and November n tilenortherndistricts.
Economists say Moqga occurs mainly because of .inemployment during the ^articular period due to lack of ndustries in the region.
As per the inter-ministerial Jecision. Bangladesh Overseas Employment Services limited BOESL), the state-owned ecruiting agency, will also give priori ty for hiring workers from he monga hit districts.
The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training BMET) through its technical raining centres will impart raining to the workers on dif-erent trades required by the employers of labour receiving
countries.
"PKSF and BMET will soon sign a memorandum of under-danding (MoU) in this regard," \bdul Matin Chowdhury, secretary to the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare, told The Daily Star. PKSF will help select he poor overseas job seekers.
Such MoU may also be signed between the recruiting Agencies and the government is well, according to Dhowdhury.
Asked if PKSF will finance he job seekers or make any Arrangement for financing the :ost of going abroad, he said his has not decided yet.
Training will be provided pnly after job demands are eceived from the employers, lesaid.
A recruiting agent, however, ;aid most employers want eady workers and they are isually reluctant to give much ime to the agencies for work-*rs' capacity building before lending them to workplaces.