More than 300,000 have gone overseas on employment through the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau so far this year.Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said that it was the highest number of registered Sri Lankans to have gone overseas for employment in a year.
The Minister has tweeted: “For first time in the history of Sri Lanka, the Foreign Employment Bureau has registered and facilitated over 300,000 migrant workers who will return and contribute to the crisis we face positively while elevating living standards of their families.”