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Bangladesh receives 94.98 bln USD remittance in 7 year

Xinhua, January 26, 2017 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said a total of 3.72 million Bangladeshi people went abroad with overseas employment and remitted home 94.98 billion U.S. dollars from 2010 to 2016.

"Bangladesh sent 7, 57,731 overseas workers including 1, 18,158 females to 162 countries and received 13.61 billion U.S. dollars as remittance in 2016," the state-run BSS quoted the prime minister as saying on Wednesday while responding to a question from treasury bench member in the country's National Parliament.

Hasina said her ruling Bangladesh Awami League party government has undertaken various programs for development and modernization of migration procedure along with welfare of the expatriate workers.

She informed the House that the government honored 12 expatriates as commercial important persons (CIPs) in 2016, adding, "The CIPs would have privilege to enter Bangladesh Secretariat by using this card side by side with reserved seats for traveling by air, train and waterways."

Besides, they will get facility to sit with government high officials at home and abroad on a priority basis and get invitation to join the national day functions organized by Bangladesh missions abroad, the prime minister said, adding, "If the CIP awardees want to invest in Bangladesh they could enjoy similar facilities like foreign investors."

She said the government has a plan to open labor wings at Bangladesh missions abroad in phases where over 10,000 workers are living and the number of such labor wings has been increased to 29 from 16.

Sheikh Hasina, however, said the cabinet has approved "Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Policy 2016" aimed at ensuring safe and easy migration of overseas job seekers alongside creating new employment and ensuring welfare and rights of the expatriate workers and their families. Endit