Thrust on high speed internet facilities

COMILLA, Nov 21 (BSS) - The aspiring future IT leaders and entrepreneurs have put forward suggestions including attractive remuneration packages for the entrepreneurs to grow, providing more IT training for building skilled manpower and low cost but high speed internet facilities to boost IT sector.

The suggestions came when Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder gave assignment to 120 youngsters receiving IT training under a Fast Track Future Leader (FTFL) Training course of World Bank funded Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project at Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) at Comilla on Thursday.

LICT Project Director Md. Rezaul Karim, Project Management Specialist Sarker Abul Kalam Azad and Communication Specialist Ajit Kumar Sarkar were present.

The LICT project, which would create 34,000 IT professionals, selected 120 youngsters through online exam for second batch to provide three-month training -- one month in Comilla BARD and two months in Dhaka -- under FTFL training course.

The ICT Secretary who has good track record of carrying out training conducted two-hour session on soft skill at the auditorium of BARD.

At one stage he assigned 12 groups of 10-member each to separately identify five problems in the ICT sector and provide suggestions to resolve those.

All the 12 group leaders who led 10-member team will complete one-month soft skill training programme on 28 November and begin two-month technical training in Dhaka gave a presentation prepared after 15-minute discussion on the topic with their members.

"I am really happy to hear the presentation of the group leaders who have pin-pointed the problems and made constructive suggestions to solve those," Sikder said while expressing his reaction.

He went on saying, "Each of the 120 youngsters is talented and the government is very keen to create an opportunity for them to flourish their latent talent."