National Training Day tomorrow

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DHAKA, Jan 22, 2021 (BSS) – The 25th National Training Day and 40th
founding anniversary of Bangladesh Society for Training and
Development (BSTD) will be observed through various programmes in the
country tomorrow.

On the eve of the day, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages wishing all success of the
day’s programmes.

“To expedite the socio-economic development of a country, skilled,
experienced, professional, service-oriented and industrious workforce
is essential,” President Abdul Hamid said in a message today.

Along with institutional education, there is no alternative to
profession based improvement and modern trainings to create skilled
human resources, he added.

“The present government has taken different programmes for human
resource development,” Hamid said.

The President lauded the role of BSTD in observing the day and hoped
that it would continue its efforts to develop skilled manpower.

In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said realizing the
importance of training, her government has taken various development
and reform programmes for the sector.

“Budget allocation for training sector has been increased. Priority
has been given to infrastructural development of the training
centers,” she said, adding that course duration of the foundation
training for the cadre service officers was extended to six months.

She also said various reform programmes, including expanding the
scope of training at home and abroad, is being implemented to develop
Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) as a service-oriented and modern
organization.

She hoped that the BSTD will act as an auxiliary force in the coming
days in implementing the government’s ‘Vision-2021’ and ‘Vision-2041’
and contribute to building ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by the best
Bengali of all times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman by developing human resources.