Bangladesh, Jan. 22 -- Bangladesh's manpower sector gets another setback as the lone reliable destination Saudi labour market further shrunken as the oil rich country's latest decision on employing 60 percent local workforce instead of hiring manpower from abroad.

Such a move will hurt the Bangladesh's manpower exporting sector as the country has become lone dependent on Saudi Arabian employers for long.

Stakeholders including the leaders of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) expressed anxiety on the latest Saudi decision of shrinking manpower hiring from countries like Bangladesh.

When contacted, former BAIRA Joint Secretary General Muhammad Fakhrul Islam on Tuesday told The New Nation, "Such a Saudi m...