Shahnaz Begum of DOT
[2] The Joint Coordinating Front (BAIRA) has demanded the closure of the syndicate and the air ticket syndicate with migrant workers in Malaysia. BAIRA president Dr. Md Faruk made the demand at a press conference at the National Press Club yesterday, reports Dhaka Post.
[3] In a written statement, he said that the export of workers was stopped for almost three years. On December 19 last year, the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare of Bangladesh signed an agreement with Malaysia on the export of migrant workers. With the power and money, through the 2016 syndicate, workers have added a condition to the export agreement.
[4] “Our demands are very simple and normal,” Faruk said. Valid licenses should allow workers to export to Malaysia.
.[5] The condition is that the power to select Bangladeshi manpower exporters should be in the hands of the Malaysian government. This condition has created opportunities to be syndicated again and the syndicate has been encouraged.
[6] BAIRA’s secretary general Mostafa Mahmud said, “According to the 2019 law, our government will issue licenses to the workers.” But the Malaysian government will decide who will do the business. I think it violates our sovereignty.
[7] Demanding a halt to the increase in air tickets, the organization said there was no syndicate in manpower exports, not unusual air fares. Extremely detrimental to both nations and to this trade.