IT Correspondent
Dhaka, Sep 24:
For the third day, migrant workers have gather in front of the office of Saudi Arabian Airlines at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka to secure return tickets to Saudi Arabia (KSA)
On Thursday morning, around 100 to 150 stranded migrant workers gathered in the area and vented out their frustration over failing to secure return tickets.
Md Shah Alam, one of the migrant workers who were at the demonstration, told that he returned to Bangladesh from Saudi Arabia in November last year and became stranded due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Recently, the authorities of his company asked him to rejoin his workplace by September 30.
“I came to Bangladesh with a return ticket. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the flights were suspended. Now, the airline is supposed to renew my ticket after charging some extra money. Like me, hundreds of workers have been waiting for tickets,” Md Shah Alam said.
“Seeing how things are going, I am afraid that I will not get a ticket in time and it may cost me my job,” he added.
Billal Hossain, another protesting migrant worker, said the Saudi Arabian Airlines office had given him a token numbered 137.
Hatirjheel police station Officer-in-Charge Abdur Rashid said the ticket seeker had been gathering at Karwan Bazar intersection since morning.