<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for ensuring that seekers of jobs abroad must not fall prey to the frauds and middlemen.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“So we always have to consider that these people could go abroad through proper channel and get appropriate job. It is very much important for us to ensure that these people must not fall prey to the fraudulent people and middlemen,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister was delivering her introductory speech at the second meeting of the Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Affairs National Steering Committee at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She asked the authorities concerned to find&nbsp; new destinations for sending manpower alongside making them skilled through giving appropriate training on different trades.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have manpower in different countries, but we have to find more destinations,”&nbsp; said the PM.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina said that the government has started sending manpower to some new places. “But, we have to send skilled manpower. We have taken initiatives to provide training,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She asked the authorities concerned to figure out which country needs what kinds of skilled manpower. “We will provide training to them.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The PM mentioned that sometimes it is seen that people are selling their&nbsp; houses and lands to pay the unscrupulous middlemen and fraudulent persons for a job&nbsp; abroad.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She put emphasis on creating public awareness against going abroad for jobs through middlemen.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the heavy pressure on economy for coronavirus pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war, the income of the expatriates contributed a lot in the country's reserve and overall development, said the prime minister. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>