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Female manpower export in Bangladesh:

Female manpower export falls by 23pc in three months .

Country's female manpower export has witnessed a 23 per cent decline in the first quarter of 2012 (January - March) amid squeezing employment by the Middle-East countries, officials said.

Export of women manpower has significantly fallen in Q-1 2012 to 6,393 from 8361 in 2011, the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) statistics showed.

According to the statistics, 3,498 female workers went to different destinations in March, 2011, the number of which has fallen to only 1,820 in last March.

Reluctance in the Middle-East nations in importing Bangladeshi manpower is responsible for the fall, general secretary of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) .

The country normally witnesses ups and downs in the export of manpower for few months every year, but this recent fall is abnormal.

Executive Director of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) Dr Tasneem Siddique said the countries-Jordan and Lebanon had the biggest market for Bangladeshi female manpower that has been almost stopped.

Meanwhile, insecurity is also discouraging women in the country for going abroad, she pointed out.

Recruitment of female workers in the KSA, once a prime market for Bangladesh, has fallen drastically to only 112 in last three months of 2012.

Jordan, recruited 1,300 Bangladeshi female workers in first quarter of 2011 but the number fell to only 14 in 2012, BMET officials said.

Experts attributed the fall to failed Diplomacy.

More than seven and a half million Bangladeshi migrant workers had remitted $12.165 billion in 2011, a record in the country's history, marking a 10.55 per cent growth over the previous calendar year.

Overseas recruitment in 2011 had also recorded a 45 per cent growth compared to the previous year when demand for Bangladeshi workers declined sharply due to a spill-over effect of the 2008-9...