Each district needs an engineering college

Bangladesh is fast moving towards industrialisation. The number of the below-poverty level people has been reducing. In the next decade, Bangladesh is expected to become a middle-income country. To make all this happen, many industries will need huge technical and professional work force. Indeed, shortage of technical and professional work force will be a major impediment to economic development.

Bangladesh has to take programmers now to cope with the need for skilled manpower. The huge workforce needs to be transformed into technical and professional work force. The transformation needs a few years to achieve the desired goal. Many industrial ventures in the country have engaged foreign technical hands at exorbitant salaries.

A large number of students at higher secondary level are interested to study engineering. In fact, expansion of general higher education increases the number of educated un-employed population, which is mere wastage of national wealth. It is necessary to set up engineering institutes, at least one in each district to impart undergraduate courses in different engineering disciplines.

Md Ashraf Hossain

Central Bashabo, Dhaka