Bangladesh and Japan on Monday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) for the recruitment of technical interns by Japan from Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh Embassy  in Tokyo.

Secretary in charge to the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Nomita Halder and Vice Minister for Policy Coordination of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Jinichi MIYANO and Administrative Vice Minister of Ministry of Justice Hiromu KUROKAWA and Director General, Consular Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of JapanKoichi AIBOSHI signed in the MOC on behalf of their respective countries.

Bangladesh Ambassador in Japan Rabab Fatima and other high officials in Japan were present during the signing ceremony, according to the press release signed by Md. Shiplu Zaman, Second Secretary (Press) at Bangladesh Embay in Tokyo.

Bangladesh as the 7th sending country of technical interns signed the MoC with Japan.

Nomita Halder said that the MoC would broaden the opportunity for technical interns to acquire Japanese skills and londontoto knowledge in the list of 77 occupation and 137 selective works and later get a job in Japan for 3 to 5 years.

Finishing the job, the technical interns would transfer the technical know-how to Bangladesh and could contribute to the nation, she said.

Japan has a shortage of work-force in the sector of construction, manufacturing, garments, agriculture, food processing and care giving.

‘We are here to explore how to match our abundance of skilled and semi-skilled work-force, with Japan’s manpower shortage,’ said Nomita Halder, informing that the Bangladesh government has been taking various initiatives to prepare the technical interns.

Following the signing of MoC, a bilateral meeting between the delegations of the two countries was held at Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and discussed bilateral issues regarding human resource development of Bangladesh.

Secretary Namita Halder also had meeting with Yoshio Suzuki, President of Organization for Technical Intern Training (OTIT), a government organization entrusted with supervising and monitoring.

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