State Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury said on Tuesday that the 'Upazila Migration Coordination Committee' is being formed at the upazila level with union parishad chairman, upazila nirbahi officer and upazila parishad chairman at the local level as a combination of recruiting agencies with the migrants.

He said this at a meeting on the progress of implementation of the decision taken at a review meeting on increasing skilled manpower export and remittance flow under the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment at the conference room of the ministry.

It was learned from the meeting that the Upazila Migration Co-ordination Committee will work as a platform to increase awareness about migration and take steps for capacity development, provide redress to the deceived workers and assist in the reintegration of the returnee workers, identify the existing gap between the service recipients and service providers in obtaining migration related services and advise them to overcome them.

Secretary to the ministry Md Ruhul Amin and Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) Director General Saleh Ahmed Muzaffar, among others, were present at the meeting.

Managing Director of Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Limited (BOESL) Dr Mallick Anwar Hossain, Director General of Wage Earners' Welfare Board Md Hamidur Rahman, Managing Director of Probashi Kallyan Bank Md Mojibur Rahman and senior officials of the ministry were present at the meeting.