Working to bring down migration cost: minister
Database on returnees launched Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Expatriates Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said they are taking measures and putting out new rules to ensure that migrant workers do not pay a price that would cripple them economically. We want to bring it down to an acceptable level, the minister said.
He was addressing a programme marking the launch of Returning Migrants Management of Information Systems (ReMiMIS), a digital database on returnee migrants, at the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) in the capital. The ministry with support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the platform.