The government has a great responsibility for ensuring the development of quality human resources. Such resources are the prime assets of a country. Our earnings from remittances could have increased if more skilled or qualified workers were sent abroad.
Private operators are only after quick money. They do not care what happens to the workers or the national economy. It is for the government to concentrate on these aspects.
The government should assess the need for quality manpower in each specific sector of the economy and also survey abroad, in order to find out the categories of workers we need and also for whom there is still demand in foreign countries. Then, the required training centres can be established to regularly train people. This would mean some public sector investment which would be easily recovered once the trained human resources are fully employed within the country or can be sent abroad wherefrom such workers start sending remittances.
This policy, as far as the objective of sending people abroad is concerned, would meet two objectives. On the one had, more people would qualify for better paid jobs abroad. On the other hand, being skilled, they would be able to send more money back home. Now Bangladeshi unskilled workers earn less, and can, therefore, send home less.
The government policy should encourage the state-owned banks to lend to the disadvantaged in order to enable them to afford the related costs for skill formation. They can repay the loans from their earnings within and also at abroad, following their employment. The relevant departments of the government should liaise with all the related economic operators in the country and also the private manpower agencies to ensure that proper jobs are provided to those trained skilled hands within the country and also that jobs contracts signed are genuine and the workers, particularly those seeking foreign employment, do not fall prey to frauds.
Sadeque Ahmed
Naya Paltan,
Dhaka.
Training in skills
FE Team | Published: December 30, 2008 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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