Thrust on making underprivileged children skilled workforce

The Underprivileged Children's Educational Programmes in Bangladesh (UCEP-Bangladesh) is playing crucial and laudable role in producing skilled workforces for local industries and entrepreneurs.

Industrialists and business community leaders made the observation at a views-sharing meeting of employers and youths being trained at UCEP Rangpur Technical School at the Chamber Auditorium in Rangpur city on Sunday afternoon, reports BSS.

Chairperson of UCEP Regional Employers' Committee for Rangpur Region and President of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (RCCI) Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu attended the programme as the chief guest.

Acting Rangpur Regional Manager of UCEP-Bangladesh Mansur Rahman presided over the event. Former Deputy General Manager of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Khairul Alam Almazee, President of Rangpur unit of Bangladesh Fertilisers Association Motahar Hossain Mandal Mowla and Rangpur Regional Deputy Director of UCEP-Bangladesh (Field Operations) were also present and spoke.

Moderated by Rangpur Regional Deputy Programme Officer of UCEP-Bangladesh Rizwan Ahmed, owners and representatives of different industries, enterprises, factories and other employer organisations of Rangpur region participated in the meeting.

Mansur Rahman discussed UCEP's activities in transforming the underprivileged working children into skilled human resources through providing technical and vocational education, and training to turn them into skilled workforces.

"Like other regional schools, UCEP Rangpur Technical School is also providing similar education and training programmes on various trades to the underprivileged working children and assisting them in getting jobs to change their fortune," Rahman said.

He sought continuous cooperation of industrialists to enhance activities of UCEP-Bangladesh in Rangpur region through providing need-based technical and vocational education and training to underprivileged children toward the direction.

Highly commending UCEP activities, Khairul Alam Almazee called for developing more innovative programmes to meet demand for skilled workforces in local industries through producing skilled workforce from UCEP technical schools.

Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury said UCEP has earned repute by contributing to the national economy with meeting demand of skilled human workforces for renowned industries like Pran Group, Walton Group, Abul Khayer Group, Nasir Group and many foreign industries.

"I have complete confidence in abilities of UCEP to meet newer challenges," he said.

More underprivileged children would be turned into skilled workforces to avail job opportunities in the region without going to the country's other regions, he added.