The government has reached an agreement with the leading IT firms to provide jobs to 1000 youngsters in the IT and IT Enabled Service (ITES) Industries under an employment incentive scheme, reports BSS.
As per the agreement the World Bank (WB) financed Support to Development of Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park (SDKHP) under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division will give Tk 40,000 each of the 1,000 youngsters as stimulus to IT firms for providing necessary training in IT and ITES.
Initially, SDKHP on April 3,2014 signed separate agreement with 19 IT firms to provide permanent jobs to 605 youngsters after giving trainings in various tracks including software, programming and web design.
"It's a beginning to create large number of employment in the IT sector under the government-sponsored various programmes," ICT Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan told the news agency.
He said the Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employ-ment and Governance (LICT) project will create 34,000 IT professionals by providing them world-class training as per demand of the IT industry and the government will give incentive to the IT industries to ensure permanent job to them.
Khan said the government is now focusing on high-end training to create skilled-manpower as Hi-Tech Parks are being built in divisions and districts. The Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park and Jessore Software Park will create a huge number of employment opportunity and these skilled manpower will get job there, he added.
ICT Secretary said keeping this in mind the government has launched Learning and Earning Programme to create a total of 70,000 freelancers first and then to develop some of them as entrepreneurs and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) professionals.
The entrepreneurs and BPO professionals will be given an opportunity to do business at the Hi-Tech and Software Park, he added.
IT firms to provide jobs to 1,000 youngsters
FE Team | Published: April 12, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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