This was stated by Director General of Pakistan Manpower Institute Muhammad Azam at a inaugural ceremony of workshop on "Human Resource Development Planning" here on Tuesday.

He appreciated the role of Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BE&OE) for facilitating labours to various foreign countries.

The workshop was organized for the training of newly inducted inspectors of (BE&OE).

He said that Ministry of Labour and Manpower has taken various steps to upgrade and improve labours's training to compete in the international market.

Azam said that during the last three years the ratio of labour emigration was increased and remittances touched to the US $ 11.

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