Streamline the manpower policy
Saturday, 16 February 2008
Trained or skilled manpower can be exported to earn more foreign currency. But that should be done following a systematic process taking care not to create a shortage of professionals or skilled manpower for the country's needs. There has to be, at first, an assessment on the requirements of the country, followed by efforts to have them in the needed number.
In the next phase, the surplus trained manpower could be sent out. But a clear policy like this appears to be missing in Bangladesh. It explains why it is failing to make the most of its manpower resources or getting the best returns out of them.
Manpower resources development essentially needs to be a two track approach. On the one hand, such resources need to be created in adequate numbers for the country's economic growth, developmental activities and its social sectors. On the other hand, plans need to be implemented under both the public and private sectors to create trained manpower or human resources exclusively for exporting them to the overseas markets to earn foreign currencies for the country.
We have no idea what skilled plumbers, electricians, masons or carpenters mean. We have no idea how much they can earn in a western country. Do we know that without certification from a qualified plumber no insurance claim would be settled in a western country? Trained people in each of these trades would earn no less than an engineer in the US or many of the other western countries.
Fariduddin Ahmed
Malibag, Dhaka
In the next phase, the surplus trained manpower could be sent out. But a clear policy like this appears to be missing in Bangladesh. It explains why it is failing to make the most of its manpower resources or getting the best returns out of them.
Manpower resources development essentially needs to be a two track approach. On the one hand, such resources need to be created in adequate numbers for the country's economic growth, developmental activities and its social sectors. On the other hand, plans need to be implemented under both the public and private sectors to create trained manpower or human resources exclusively for exporting them to the overseas markets to earn foreign currencies for the country.
We have no idea what skilled plumbers, electricians, masons or carpenters mean. We have no idea how much they can earn in a western country. Do we know that without certification from a qualified plumber no insurance claim would be settled in a western country? Trained people in each of these trades would earn no less than an engineer in the US or many of the other western countries.
Fariduddin Ahmed
Malibag, Dhaka