Pandemic-Hit Overseas Job: Returnees see bleak future
2.72 lakh returned in 7 months; govt efforts for their economic reintegration fail to yield expected outcome After years of struggle, Mostakim Alam landed a job at a digital printing shop in Kuwait as a computer operator. With earnings of Tk 1.20 lakh a month, all was going well. Then came the novel coronavirus, bringing with it a sudden and impactful cascade of disruptions to his life. Losing the job, he eventually returned home in May from the
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