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Seychelles to resume recruiting Bangladeshi manpower


Published : 22 Oct 2019 08:58 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 05:01 PM

Seychelles, an East African Island nation, would soon start recruiting skilled manpower from Bangladesh. An agreement to this end was signed on Monday, official sources said. The Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed signed an agreement with Seychelles officials in Victoria, the capital city of the country that is made up of 115 small islands located about 1500 km east of the mainland Africa (Kenya).

Seychelles, one of the richest nations in the African Union, had suspended recruiting Bangladeshi workers from October last year. The fresh agreement opens the door for new job market for Bangladeshis in that country, ending the year-long deadlock of recruitment remaining suspended.

The Minister, Imran Ahmed, is currently visiting Seychelles since Saturday last. Meanwhile, the manpower exporters association have expressed satisfaction over the agreement hoping that no syndication in recruitment of manpower would ever take place again. ‘We are hopeful of checking such syndication and prevent them in the future,’ said Shameem Ahmed Chowdhury Noman, General Secretary of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies-BAIRA.

Officials of the ministry said that Seychelles will recruit Bangladeshi skilled workers in the areas of construction, tourism, hotel management, health services, cooking, housekeeping, villa attendant, agro and poultry farms and other sectors. About 2500 Bangladeshi workers are currently working in the country, most are working in construction sector.

Seychelles immigration and employment minister Myriam Telemaque signed the agreement on behalf of the government of that country.
Bangladeshi high commissioner to Mauritius Rezina Ahmed, Joint Secretary of the expatriate ministry Mohammad Fazlul Karim, Deputy Secretary Muhammad Shahin and BMET Director DM Atiqur Rahman, were present. The minister asked the expatriate Bangladeshi community there to work honestly to uphold the nation’s good reputation.