Skilled workforce crucial for development: RpMP Commissioner

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RANGPUR, Dec 4, 2019 (BSS) – Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) Commissioner Abdul Alim Mahmud today said turning of youths into skilled workforce is crucial to increase productivity and foreign remittance inflow.

“Next to the Ready Made Garments sector, Bangladesh is earning the second highest amount of foreign remittance through manpower export to maintain a laudable reserve of around 33 billion US dollar maintaining a stronger economy,” he said.

The RpMP Chief viewed this at a function organised by Rangpur Technical Training Centre (TTC) at its conference room here as the chief guest.

Senior Reporter of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Mamun Islam and Vocational Education and Job Placement Specialist of Plan International Bangladesh Rafikul Islam addressed as special guests.

Rangpur TTC Principal Engineer Lutfar Rahman presided over the function arranged for inaugurating six-month long Japanese language course for 25 students and two-month long training course on Welding and Fabrication for 25 students.

The chief guest inaugurated the training courses and distributed certificates among outgoing 30 overseas jobseeker youths on successful completion of their pre-departure training courses at Rangpur TTC.

Engineer Rahman said Rangpur TTC has turned 21,160 male and female youths into skilled workforce by providing training on 37 technical and vocational courses in nine trades in the last eleven years since its inception in 2008.

Of them, 11,440 male and female youths have got overseas jobs as skilled workforce in 23 countries after completing technical trainings on various courses at Rangpur TTC.

Some 23,800 youths were admitted at the TTC since 2008 and 21,160 of them completed courses on various trades and foreign languages.

“Around 2,000 male and female youths are undergoing training at the TTC where language courses in Japanese, Arabic, English and Korean are also being imparted,” Rahman added.

Local industries, offices and enterprises are directly appointing trained youth workforce and overseas employment recruiting agencies appointing them directly in foreign countries on completion of courses at Rangpur TTC.

The chief guest stressed on spreading technical and vocational education and training programs among youths to turn them into skilled workforce to reap benefits of demographic dividend.

Terming overseas job-seekers as most respected citizens and national ambassadors abroad, he suggested them to send remittance through legal channels to maintain increasing trend in remittance inflow.