Reza Mahmud :
Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) has planned to build skilled manpower for earning revenue from the tourism sector. They will be additionally recognised as human resources for sending them abroad, sources said.
BTB has further said that the fascinated people will be imparted internationally recognised training and will be given certificates.
Stakeholders from manpower exporting sector said that Bangladeshi employees working in five star hotels and other facilities of tourism sectors abroad are getting very poor wages, while the workers coming from the countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Pakistan get handful salaries.
Bangladeshi workers said they get the poor salaries due to lack of internationally recognised certificates.
“We are working in a five star hotel in Putra Jaya of Malaysia but when my Indonesian or Pakistani colleagues draw a handful wages on account of a certificate of a training on tourism and hospitality we, the several Bangladeshi employees are getting a nominal salaries. Because, we have not such a certificate though we work as Pakistani do,” said, Ariful Haque of Madaripur District working in Malaysia for years. He said, the employers of Malaysian tourism sector even local and foreign tourists always praise Bangladeshi workers for their skills and well manner.
But our salaries are remaining pooe as we cannot produce trained certificates to prove us as skilled one like our neighbouring countries colleagues, Arif said.
The recruiting agencies also said that there is a vacant of skilled worker providers in this and other sectors in Bangladesh. The recruiting agencies said that they used to send workers even Higher Secondary Certificate holders but no one of those has an international standard training.
In this circumstances, Bangladesh Tourism Board made a plan to establish a training center with international standard curriculum. It also is to higher skilled trainer from abroad.
When contacted, Abu Tahir Muhammad Zaber, Director of Tourism Board, told The New Nation, “BTB will establish a training
institute soon. It will train 25 trainees in each batch of six months session.”
The Director said that the trainees have to pass HSC. He said it may need five years to construct own building of the training institute. But they have to start the training course within January 2022 in a tenant office in the Sonargaon hotel.
Such a training institute would be potential for the tourism sector in the country also supply skilled manpower abroad for earning huge remittances.
When contacted, Md. Shahidul Alam, Director General of Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) told The New Nation on Saturday, “There are huge demand of skilled and trained manpower in tourism and hospitality sector abroad.” He said, “The BMET can work with BTB combined for creating wide passages for getting job to those trained manpower abroad.” “The BTB would provide them training and we will registered them as skilled and trainedmanpower,” Shohidul Alam said.
The both agencies can arrange job fare at home and abroad and provide data of those trained people to foreign employers, it will be huge potential the DG said.
