20,000 women workers to go to KSA by June

Diplomatic Correspondent: Expatriates` Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said that about 20,000 women workers were scheduled to go to Saudi Arabia by next month.

The Minister made the disclosure while talking to journalists after a meeting with visiting Saudi envoy on Thursday afternoon.

Mosharraf Hossain said that as per the demands there, the Saudi Arabia showed interest to take 50,000 female workers and for this 100 recruiting agencies were employed to collect women workers.

He also said, "We only work with legal workers not illegal migrants. Foreign and Home Ministry work about human trafficking but we work together with foreign and home ministry."

risingbd/ DHAKA/ May 14,2015/ Rabiul Haque/ Nasim/ Mahfuz