Tk 20b budgetary allocation likely for job creation
Thursday, 30 April 2009
FHM Humayan Kabir
The government is likely to undertake two new job creation schemes besides continuing with the 100-day employment generation programme for which nearly Tk 20 billion is likely to be allocated in the upcoming national budget, officials said Wednesday.
A finance ministry official said one new employment scheme is planned to create jobs for the unemployed people who have completed their higher secondary level education but are now jobless.
The other new one project would be taken to rehabilitate the retrenched Bangladeshi migrants who returned home following the impact of the global financial meltdown in those overseas countries, he said.
The ministry official said the government has planned to continue the last caretaker government's 100-day employment generation scheme but with some revision.
"As per election manifesto, the present government is committed to create at least one job in one home. This programme will help to implement the pledge," the finance ministry official said.
Of the total outlay, nearly Tk 3.0 billion is likely to be allocated for employing people between the age of 19 and 29 years who completed HSC-level study but are jobless.
As per proposed project, the government would train about 20,000 unemployed students in some technical courses liker poultry, fisheries and light engineering and would provide jobs in those fields, he said.
"During their training period each student will get Tk 100 per day. And would receive Tk 200 per day when they will be in work," the official said.
In another job creation project, the government would rehabilitate the retrenched Bangladeshi migrant workers by providing them loan facilities so that they could invest in the productive sector for the financial of their respective families.
The central bank is likely to create a fund worth nearly Tk 4.0 billion to ensure credit facilities for the retrenched migrant workers.
Only in March this year some 23,000 Bangladeshi workers have lost their overseas jobs and returned to the country.
Nearly 6.3 million Bangladeshi skilled, semi-skilled and non-skilled workers left the country with jobs in different countries in the world until 2008, Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) said.
The government is likely to undertake two new job creation schemes besides continuing with the 100-day employment generation programme for which nearly Tk 20 billion is likely to be allocated in the upcoming national budget, officials said Wednesday.
A finance ministry official said one new employment scheme is planned to create jobs for the unemployed people who have completed their higher secondary level education but are now jobless.
The other new one project would be taken to rehabilitate the retrenched Bangladeshi migrants who returned home following the impact of the global financial meltdown in those overseas countries, he said.
The ministry official said the government has planned to continue the last caretaker government's 100-day employment generation scheme but with some revision.
"As per election manifesto, the present government is committed to create at least one job in one home. This programme will help to implement the pledge," the finance ministry official said.
Of the total outlay, nearly Tk 3.0 billion is likely to be allocated for employing people between the age of 19 and 29 years who completed HSC-level study but are jobless.
As per proposed project, the government would train about 20,000 unemployed students in some technical courses liker poultry, fisheries and light engineering and would provide jobs in those fields, he said.
"During their training period each student will get Tk 100 per day. And would receive Tk 200 per day when they will be in work," the official said.
In another job creation project, the government would rehabilitate the retrenched Bangladeshi migrant workers by providing them loan facilities so that they could invest in the productive sector for the financial of their respective families.
The central bank is likely to create a fund worth nearly Tk 4.0 billion to ensure credit facilities for the retrenched migrant workers.
Only in March this year some 23,000 Bangladeshi workers have lost their overseas jobs and returned to the country.
Nearly 6.3 million Bangladeshi skilled, semi-skilled and non-skilled workers left the country with jobs in different countries in the world until 2008, Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) said.