The remittance inflow won't melt away under the impact of the global economic meltdown as some 0.20 million (2 lakh) people have been sent abroad in the last 3 months while only 27 thousand expatriates returned from their overseas jobs, the Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister observed Wednesday, report agencies.

"Though the negative impact of global economic crisis on remittance is not pronounced in the country, we are very conscious about this and trying to take policy response to face the problem," said Minister Eng Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain.

Mosharraf made the observations while addressing a policy dialogue on 'Global Economic Crisis: Impact on Bangladesh's Overseas Employment Sector' at Hotel Sonargaon, jointly organised by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and The Daily Star.

Mentioning the government's commitment to ensure welfare of the expatriate workers and protecting their rights, the minister said, the government will construct 34-more training centres across the country involving Tk 56.70 billion (567 crore) to provide training to non-skilled manpower on different categories.

In this connection, the minister said that a Recruitment Policy would also be formulated paving the way to send skilled Bangladeshi workforce including the women abroad and ensuring their rights and welfare.

Besides, against the backdrop of widespread harassment of migrated workers at the airport, the government has decided to provide red-corner facilities and constructing a gangway for them from the airport to nearby train station to reduce their long standing sufferings, the minister said.