Engineering institution at Munshiganj

Tremendous development has taken place in the country since independence. Now Bangladesh makes ocean-going ships, produce cold-rolled steel coil and assemble air cooler, fridge, motorbike. Our textile products have earned fame worldwide. The number of the below-poverty level people has reduced to less than 25 per cent. In the next decade, Bangladesh is expected to become a middle-income country. Further expansion of industries will need huge technical and professional work force. Shortage of technical work force will be a major impediment to industrial development. So it is time to take a pragmatic programme to cope with the challenge. There is need for developing a technical work force.
 Many industrial ventures like steel industries, dyeing and fisheries have been engaging foreign technical experts at exorbitant wages. There are educated un-employed work forces in the country having general education. Imparting under graduate courses in different engineering disciplines is the need of the hour.
Munshiganj is the nearest district town to the capital. One can reach Munshiganj within an hour by road from the capital where as it takes more than two hours to travel from north end to south end of Dhaka metropolis. Munshiganj can be a good destination for setting up a full-fledged engineering university for imparting undergraduate engineering education.  Definitely, thousands of students at higher secondary level are interested to study engineering. In fact, expansion of general higher education increases the number of educated unemployed population, which is mere wastage of national wealth. An engineering institution or university could be set up near Dhaka-Mawa highway in Munshiganj.

Zibun Nahar Ashraf
Nasim kutir
Deovoug, Munshiganj