DHAKA: More than 12,000 Bangladeshi garment workers are to be recruited by Jordan next year to help revive the ailing industry sector, Dhaka’s envoy in Amman revealed on Friday. Around 90,000 Bangladeshis currently work in Jordan, some 53,000 of whom are employed in the garment sector, according to the Bangladeshi Embassy. Nahid Sobhan, the Bangladeshi ambassador to Jordan, told Arab News: “It will be fully a private sector employment. But they needed government clearance for allowing foreign workers to come, which has now opened. Several factories are interested in bringing Bangladeshi skilled workforces into the country.” She said the first batch of the new workers would arrive in Jordan as soon as Bangladeshi officials completed all the necessary recruitment formalities and a Jordanian delegation was expected to visit Dhaka soon to finalize the process.