Reza Mahmud :
Experts said when the skilled workforce markets in the world are increasing, our training centers failed to supply adequate trained manpower.
Countries, like India, Pakistan, Nepal and the Philippines are making cash the scope by sending skilled labours abroad.
A recent Migration and Development report of the World Bank showed that the Philippines earned $33.8 billion in remittance from its 2.3 million diasporas.
In the same report, the WB disclosed that Bangladesh received only $15.5 billion remittance in the same year while it has about double workforce abroad.
According to the BMET, about one crore Bangladeshi workers are working in different countries.
Sources said that BMET’s training institutes are providing very few trained manpower comparing to the demands of the labour markets.
In addition the produced manpower also are not skilled enough, because they have been trained in those institutes, which have shortages of instructors.
When contacted, Shameem Ahmed Chowdhury Noman, former Secretary General of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) told The New Nation, “When the market is demanding skilled manpower, we failed to supply that. The manpower exporters are suffering seriously from enormous shortages of trained labour.”
In Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and countries in the Middle East and different regions have huge demand for Bangladeshi skilled workforce now, he added.
The BAIRA leader said due to short supply from Bangladesh, the recruiters are choosing other countries to recruit workforce.
Noman said, when the country is in need of plenty foreign currency and the scope also are existing, the poor training facilities are hampering the opportunity.
DU Professor Dr. Tasneem Siddiqui, Chairman of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) expressed her anxiety over it.
She told The New Nation that the authority should give priority to send skilled workforce abroad.
Sources of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) said that its about 100 technical training centers (TTC)s and institutes of marine technology (IMT)s are suffering from huge instructor and teacher crisis.
When contacted, Md. Shahidul Alam, Director General of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) told The New Nation on Saturday, “There are instructor crisis in BMET’s training centers due to number of cases filed by several teachers for settling their appointment.”
Courts have imposed embargos of appointing new instructors as per those cases. As a result instructor appointing process are hanging over for years in different cases.
The DG said that he has taken several initiatives on solving the matter so that the crisis of those training institutes could be removed soon.
When contacted, Imran Ahmad, the Minister of Expatriates’ Welfare and Employment Overseas Ministry told The New Nation, “We are now give it utmost importance and priority to create skilled manpower through adequate training in our training centers to meet the demand of new labour markets abroad.”
