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Dhaka to ask Male to regularise workers

Up to 50,000 Bangladeshis in Maldives face hurdles in job

Porimol Palma
The government will raise the issue of regularising an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 unauthorised Bangladeshis with the Maldives.
The migrant labourers who are working mainly in tourism and construction sectors there are very often subjected to abuses of various forms.
“I will request the Maldives authorities to regularise our people and solve their prob-lems,” said Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain who is leasing for the Maldives tonight.
The three-member delegation led by the expatriates' welfare minister will hold talks with the president, home and labour ministers of the Maldives during the five-day visit
The other two members of the delegation are Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) Director General Khorshed Alam and the minister's personal secretary Dr Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday the minister said they learnt that Bangladeshi workers go to the Maldives as tourists but later they somehow manage to get jobs there. “But because of their illegal status many of them are exploited and subjected to abuses.”
Which is why, Mosharraf said, these workers often don't get their salaries and other facilities as were promised before they had joined the jobs.
"It is my responsibility to g6 therd and listen to them and discuss the issue with the authorities of the Maldives," he said.
“We came to know about their positive attitudes through our high commission,” Mosharraf said, adding that Bangladesh and the Maldives have a very friendly relations and it is expected that the visit will bring something very fruitful.
He said the Maldives earlier requested Bangladesh to set up a university there and provide teachers for it and Bangladesh had agreed with the proposal.
According to officials of the expatriates’ welfare min-
.istry, there are Sdme Bangladeshi professionals in Male like engineers and doctors too.
“The delegation will also make sure if there is still any job prospect for Bangladeshi workers," said an official.
Recruitment agency sources said the workers go to the Maldives either via Kolkata or Singapore and obtain visas after their arrival in Male. There are brokers to find them jobs once jobseekers arrive there, a recruiting agent said.
“Jobseekers go there on tourist visas but they manage to get jobs as the Maldives need workers," he said.