’Lack of skills biggest challenge to employment’

Lack of skills is the biggest challenge for employment in Bangladesh, experts said at a roundtable in Dhaka on Tuesday. Although Bangladesh has 65 million of workforce, they often do not find good jobs as they are not skilled. For the same reason, Bangladesh cannot utilise the job opportunities available abroad as other developing countries like India and Malaysia grab those, they said. Francis De Silva, senior specialist, ILO Dhaka presented the keynote paper at the roundtable titled ‘Skills for employment in Bangladesh: Present and future’ held at the BRAC Centre auditorium, according to a news agency.