COLOMBO, Dec 19 (NNN-XINHUA) – Over 300,000 Sri Lankans have left the country for foreign employment, so far, this year, a minister said here yesterday.
Addressing an event, to mark International Migrants Day, Sri Lankan Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara, said, this is the highest number of Sri Lankans leaving for foreign jobs, in its post-independent history.
The minister said that, the remittances they send will help Sri Lanka overcome the current economic crisis.
He said that, remittances sent by Sri Lankan foreign workers abroad increased to 384.4 million U.S. dollars in Nov, 2022.
The number has been rising steadily in the past few months, and the total remittances in the first 11 months of the year are over 3.3 billion dollars, the minister said.– NNN-XINHUA
