Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said expansion of technical and vocational education and training for the youths has consolidated the position of Bangladeshis in Middle East, Malaysia and European labour markets.
"The government is considering the country's huge manpower, a strong element of the national economy, as it creates industry, entrepreneurs, workers and domestic market," he said while speaking at the closing ceremony of a three-day international conference on 'Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Sustainable Development' at a city hotel Saturday night.
That's why, he said, the government has continued its efforts to create skilled manpower capable of surviving the competition in the international labour market, said a press release issued by the Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB).
Mr Amu also said the government is stressing the need for enhancement of skills, a key weapon of poverty alleviation and socio-economic development and that's why it has constituted the National Skills Council (NSC).
He informed that initiatives have been taken to implement three projects on technical and vocational education and training in cooperation with the European Commission, Asian Development Bank and World Bank.
The minister said the government has already established many technical schools and colleges at upazila level and geared up the activities of the existing training centres as technical education played a key role in poverty alleviation.
The government would take into account each recommendation coming out from the international conference, he added.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam who spoke at the programme as the special guest said around 400,000 diploma engineers have been created in the country in last 44 years.
Several ministers, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, took part in different sessions of the conference and attached much importance to technical and vocational education, he said, adding that 85 per cent of the development work is done by diploma engineers.
CPSC Faculty Consultant Dr G Kulanthaivel and IDEB President A K M A Hamid and General Secretary Md Shamsur Rahman also spoke on the occasion.
IDEB and Colombo Plan Staff College (CPSC), Manila organised the conference in cooperation with the education ministry, Canada and the World Bank.
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Training helps BD cement position in overseas labour market
FE Report | Published: May 04, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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