Imran Ahmed MP, State Minister, Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment of Bangladesh; Ashud Ahmed, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Qatar; Muhammed Hassan Al Obaidly, Assistant Under-Secretary for Labour Affairs at the Ministry of Administrat
The Bangladesh Community — Qatar (BCQ), an association of expatriate community, was inaugurated officially on Friday in the presence of Imran Ahmed MP, State Minister at the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment of Bangladesh.
Held at Crowne Plaza Hotel Doha the ceremony was attended by Ashud Ahmed, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Qatar; Muhammed Hassan Al Obaidly, Assistant Under-Secretary for Labor Affairs at the Ministry of Administrative Development Labour and Social Affairs of Qatar, and Lt. Hamad Ali Al Merri, Officer of Public Relations Department, Ministry of Interior.
“I came especially for the inauguration of BCQ and hopefully there will be good interaction. And I hope, ultimately, they (BCQ) will be able to do something good for Bangladesh community in Qatar,” Imran Ahmed MP, State Minister, Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment of Bangladesh told The Peninsula.
Speaking about Qatar-Bangladesh relations, the Minister said that there had been very good relations between two countries and they will remain very good.
“We are buying LNG from Qatar and over 400,000 Bangladeshi people are working in Qatar as the second largest expatriate community. We are taking part in the development of Qatar and Qatar also has involvement in Bangladesh as investor and partner,” said the minister.
“I am very happy that for the first time Bangladeshi community has come up with very constructive organisation named Bangladesh Community-Qatar (BCQ),” said Ashud Ahmed, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Qatar.
He said that BCQ will organise more programmes for the development of the community. “With the launching of BCQ, the Embassy of Bangladesh and expatriate community of Bangladesh will contribute more towards sustainable development in Bangladesh and Qatar,” said the Ambassador.
Over 300 members of Bangladesh community were hosted at the event where they were educated about the law of land by concerned departments.
A number of the departments of the Ministry of Interior including Community Police and Al Faza Police participated the event to introduce their services. The representatives of Ministry gave presentations on Metrash 2 service, repatriation procedures, services cetnres and Qatari visa centre in Bangladesh among many more.
An executive committee comprising of 149 members including Presidium members led by Engineer Anwar Hossain Akon and Secretariats led by Amin Rasul Saiful was formed to run the Bangladesh Community-Qatar (BCQ).
“The main objective of BCQ is to coordinate & cooperate with the various government authorities in Qatar and to support Qatari Government’s initiatives in various capacities,” Anwar Hossain Akon told The Peninsula.
