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SYLHET, June 21: Foundation of the Sunamganj Textile Diploma Institute would be laid in July next.
State Minister for Finance MA Mannan and State Minister for Textile and Jute Mirza Azam are expected to present the function, sources informed.
The Tk 783.1 million project will set up on a seven acre plot, east to the Abdul Mazid College at Dakshin Sunamganj upazila.
Survey on the acquired land was completed recently, sources added.
The Sunamganj Textile Diploma Institute project was earlier approved at the ECNEC meeting on April 26, 2017.
The project includes academic building, separate dormitories for boys and girls, dormitories for officers and staff, officers' quarter and principal quarter.
Besides, there would be a playground and mosque.
The project work is scheduled to be completed in two years.
However, work on the construction of infrastructures would take some more time as design preparation and other jobs are yet to be started, an official at the Public Works department (PWD) said.
Besides, the site on then low land is under water now.
Although the preliminary sanction for five acre of land acquisition for the project was Tk 50 million, it had to be raised to Tk 117.4 million due to increase of required land to seven acres for establishing playground, Shaheed Minar and mosque.
It is one of those under the government's initiative to setting vocational institutes and colleges for the textile sector, which needs 270,000 skilled anpower in 2021.
The present institutions would be able to provide only 88,000 manpower that time.
The remote Sunamagnj district had long been lying backward for its geographical location.
It has a vast tract of low-lying (haor) area, poverty and poor rate of literacy coupled with lack of employment.
The number of educational institutions is also far behind than the other districts.
It would be first technical education institution in this region, a number of locals said.
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