BITAC regional office to be set up in Sunamganj

SYLHET, June 23: The regional office of Bangladesh Industrial Technical Assistance Centre (BITAC) in Sylhet division would be established in Sunamganj district at a cost of Tk 2.0 billion.

Sources said, the five-acre land site for the government institution has already been selected on the Sylhet-Sunamganj Regional Highway at a place near the Dakshin Sunamganj Upazila Health Centre.

Planning minister MA Mannan visited the site Friday last to see for himself while BITAC DG and other officers were present, said an official.

The process for acquiring the said land would be started this week, the source informed. The design for the centre had already been prepared and the bidding process for construction and other jobs would be started soon.

The PWD would implement the project. There are five such centres at the old divisions. Now the other divisions would have one each with a target to expanding the facilities for unemployed youths for job-oriented technical training, the official added. There has been a good demand for students who have passed such short courses, he said.

BITAC organises such technical training and provide youths with jobs. Unemployed poor and less privileged youths get the training on different trades for technical jobs in the industrial sector. The course arrangements are fully residential.

BITAC has about 25 regular courses including some14-week ones and some of four to six weeks' duration each. There are some more short courses too. Besides, there are attachment courses.

There would be three-month training in nine trades for female students while the male ones would have two-month training in three trades.

These are on light machinery, refrigeration and air conditioning, electrical maintenance, household appliance repairing and maintenance, electronics, plastic processing (General), plastic processing (Customised) and carpentry.

Some well established private concerns regularly employ people trained by the BITAC.

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