Become entrepreneurs
Joy urges young Bangladeshis at ‘Young Bangla’ event
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Prime Minister's ICT affairs advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has urged the country's young people to become entrepreneurs and create jobs for others as well instead of focusing on getting jobs for themselves after study.
He made the call in his address to a group of youths at ‘Youth on Politics, a session of Young Bangla’ with Sajeeb Wazed, an event organised by the ruling party's research wing Centre for Research and Information (CRI) at a city hotel on Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com. He highlighted the possibilities of Bangladesh's information technology (IT) sector as the government is focusing on its "Digital Bangladesh| initiative.
"Please don't focus only on getting jobs. Our economy is expanding. Become entrepreneurs and stand on your own feet," he said.
"Don't depend on others, the government or any organisation or company," he urged the young Bangladeshis.
Joy, who did his post-graduation in public administration from Harvard University after studying computer science in the US and India, is himself an IT entrepreneur.
"Open your own firm. You may think what the country and the people stand to gain if you do business. You will be able to employ others in your company," he said.
"Please come forward and do something on your own for the country," he advised the youths. The prime ministerial adviser noted that the government has limited scope to employ people through Bangladesh Civil Service and other exams.
"Thousands of young people are getting degrees from schools, colleges and universities every year but most of them don't have the scope to get government jobs because the number of government jobs is only 5,000," he said.
"If you take initiative to do business, open a small shop, or start freelancing, you will pay taxes. These taxes will be added to our economy and used to serve the people."
"Your initiatives will take the country and the people forward in this way," he said.
Joy described how the government was promoting entrepreneurship by opening vocational training centres and programmes across Bangladesh.
"We have trained freelancers and now we have over 600,000 freelancers, which is second in the world," he added.