Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed urged Wednesday the BGMEA to focus more on developing manpower in the garments sector for exporting them abroad along with the readymade garments (RMG) products, reports BSS.
"We must train our youths and export them in potential markets as we do with our garment products," he said while
distributing certificates among 150 trained youths on fashion design and sweater knitting as the chief guest at the BGMEA
Institute of Fashion and Technology (BIFT) at Uttara in the city.
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has taken up a project under the European Union funds to equip 1,800 youths of little hope with fashion design skills and employ in garment industries, the number one foreign exchange earner of the country.
General Moeen took his personal initiative to forge collaboration with the BGMEA project to include 50 youths in the training programme from Monga stricken areas of the country's northern part, where people suffer from hunger in a particular time each year.
Bangladesh Army will help BGMEA to find potential and deserving youths from the poverty-hit areas under "Alor Sandhane"
programme so that they get employed after a month-long training at the BIFT, he said.
"Neither the government nor the relief materials alone can solve the problem unless innovative and collaborative approaches are taken to bring people out of Monga," said Moeen.
The BIFT will preserve a quota for 50 youths of the economically disadvantaged areas in each batch up to 2008, meeting sources said.
Develop manpower for export along with RMG: Moeen
FE Team | Published: July 05, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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