Skill dev training for unemployed begins in Gaibandha

GAIBANDHA, May 17 (BSS): A three-month skill development training on garments for the unemployed youths has at a training center of a local organisation at Nashratpur under Sadar Upazila in the district Sunday. Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK) has arranged it under Reducing Poor by Skills Development on Garments project funded by Shireep in partnership with GoB and DFID. Deputy Commissioner (DC) M. Shahidul Islam formally inaugurated the training course at noon as the chief guest and Sadar Upazila Parishad chairman Abdur Rashid Sarker was present as the special guest. With M. Abdus Salam, executive chief of GUK in the chair, the inaugural session was also addressed, among others, by UNO Ashib Ahsan and president of Gaibandha Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shahjada Anwarul Quadir. The speakers thanked the GUK for arranging such the training for the unemployed youths of the Upazila in a bid to help them solve their unemployment problems through turning them into skilled manpower. Initially, a total of 40 youths are taking part in the training in the first batch. Talking to the news agency, executive chief of GUK Abdus Salam said a total of 1140 youths including women of Kamarjani, Mollarchar, Gidari, Malibari, Ghagoa and Boalil unions of the Upazila would be imparted training on garments in phases under the project. Getting jobs in different garments industries with handsome salaries after their successful training has also been ensured for them, he also said. 2 Kauser's duck farm an exemplary success story**** Our Correspondent GOPALGANJ, May 17: Kauser Howlader (23), a young man, has been earning Tk 75,000 per month by selling eggs from his ducks rearing farm. Son of Younus Hawlader of village-Kazulia under Kotalipara Upazila in Gopalganj district, Kauser could not continue his education due to poverty. He is the eldest one among his three brothers and two sisters. Three years back, while he was at the age of 20 he started to rear 50 ducks as an experiment basis in his residence of Kazulia. In the year of 2008 he raised the number of ducks to about five hundred, on condition that fifty per cent of the profit would be paid to the moneylender till the entire borrowed money was paid up. In around three years, Kauser has refunded the borrowed money from his share of the profit. Now he takes the whole profit from the farm he runs. While this correspondent visited his farm at Kazulia Bell under Kotalipara Upazila in Gopalganj district, Kauser said he is getting a total 500 eggs from his firm everyday, the market rate of which is Tk 3,000. He has been earning about Tk 90,000 a month. Egg traders from different parts of Gopalganj district are coming to his farm for purchasing eggs. About 100 of jobless youths of the same village are now following him and already began duck rearing. They have also been earning handsome amount of money.