DHAKA, Nov 30, 2020 (BSS) – Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun
today underscored the need for making competent managers and manpower to
implement Bangabandhu’s vision of economic development.
“In order to increase the domestic industry and productivity, the
responsibility should be given to the deserving people in the right place.
Although Bangladesh owned a number of factories after the independence, but
those could not be made profitable due to lack of management skills,” he
said.
Realizing this reality, he said, Bangabandhu formed the industrial
management service for the development of the industrial sector.
The minister said this while speaking at a virtual seminar titled
‘Efficient Management in Socio-Economic Development: Bangabandhu and his
Philosophy’ organized by Bangladesh Institute of Management (BIM), said a
press release.
State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Mojumder and Additional Secretary
Salahuddin Mahmud joined the seminar as the special guests.
Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Bangabandhu Chair Professor Dr
Syed Anwar Hossain presented the keynote address at the seminar.
Jagannath University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman spoke as
the keynote speaker while BIM Director General Tahmina Akhtar presided over
the seminar.
Humayun said that in order to reap the benefits of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution (4IR), the huge manpower of Bangladesh has to be turned into human
resources.
To this end, he said, a large youth group of the country has to be
developed as entrepreneurs and managers through effective training.
Only then, it will be possible to achieve Bangabandhu’s economic liberation
goal, he remarked.
Kamal Ahmed Mojumder said that after the independence, the father of the
nation nationalized industrial factories in the interest of the working
people.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of skills of the factory managers, the
factories become unprofitable, he added. Emphasizing on the development of
manpower skills through training, he said that in order to make the
industries profitable, skilled managers should be appointed in the top
positions of the factories.