The Daily Morning Voice Online Desk: Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed has said that the government is planning to send 15 lakh Bangladeshi workers abroad this year. “The labour market in Sylhet is growing. A large labour market is emerging in China. Besides, workers are now going to Romania, Greece, Italy and we are also planning to send workers to Libya,” Imran said, reports UNB. He urged the would-be expatriates to improve their skills and follow the proper procedures for going abroad.

He made the remarks while speaking at the Sylhet, Chittagong, and Comilla divisional organizational conference of the Diploma Engineers Association in Sylhet on Friday. MD. Ujjal Bakht, Vice President (Sylhet) of Education Engineering Department Diploma Engineers’ Association (EEDDEA), Saroj Kumar Nath, Joint Secretary (Development II) of Secondary and Higher Education Department, and Delwar Hossain Majumdar, chief engineer of Education Engineering Department, were among others in the conference.