Shortage of skilled chefs in UK Cuisine training instts can create 15,000 jobs

Setting up of cuisine training institutes could open up a new avenue for Bangladesh to create overseas jobs with handsome salaries for its young people as the Britain curry industry has a shortage of 15,000 skilled chefs and managers, reports BSS.

"Of course, Bangladesh can easily tap the opportunity of jobs in the UK curry industry by setting up a world-class cuisine training institute," Enam Ali MBE, Director of British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BBCCI), told the news agency by phone from UK Friday.

In an exclusive interview, Enam Ali MBE, a Bangladesh-born British entrepreneur and leading restaurateur, said at present there are shortages of some 15,000 skilled chefs in the UK's curry industry as the British young people are reluctant to build career in the most important part of its hospitality industry.

He said: "I've already submitted a very comprehensive proposal to the British Prime Minister. Easing immigration rules are in the proposal. I am closely working with it on behalf of the multibillion dollar curry industry in the UK." To maintain quality of the planned institute up to the British standard, he favoured affiliation with an institute to launch a course.

Successful entrepreneur, also President of Guild of Bangladeshi Restaurateurs in the UK, said such training institution could be set up under any credible institute or university in Bangladesh under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) concept.