Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM)
Speakers at a Job Fair stressed the participation of meritorious students in technical education and also emphasised on the social recognition for technically educated persons. Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) organised the Job Fair 2016 at Krisibid Institute auditorium yesterday. While delivering speech as chief guest Education Secretary Md. Sohrab Hossain said, we have to develop our yourn generation to skilled human resources. In the developed countries more than 50 percents people are technically skilled at various levels while 6-7 percents in Bangladesh. The Government has initiated an expanded technical education programme to develop 20 percents skilled manpower within 2020 for eliminating unemployment. DAM President Kazi Rafiqul Alam said, DAM has so far imparted technical education to 18,219 persons. Among them, 16,070 persons have been provided jobs. It is mentionable that with the joint financial assistance of Bangladesh Government, World Bank and Canadian Government. Skills and Training Enhancement Project (STEP) is being implemented in Bangladesh. Ahsania Mission Vocational Training Institute for Working Children and Ahsania Mission Syed Sadat Ali Memorial Education & Vocational Training Centre is Imparting technical education to disadvantage and school drop-out Children under STEEP project. The Job Fair has been arranged to provid the trained persons from those two centers of DAM. Project Director of Skills and Training Enhancement Project (STEP) Md. Emran (Additional Secretary), Senior Operation Officer of World Bank Dr. Mokhlesur Rahman and DG (Acting) Directorate of Technical Education Md. Nuruzzaman were present as special guests. DAM Executive Director Dr. M. Ehsanur Rahman delivered the welcome address.
University Grants Commission of Bangladesh
UGC Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan inaugurated the newly built mosque at the 6th floor of UGC Bhaban as the Chief Guest yesterday. UGC Chairman, while inaugurating the mosque urged all to dicharge their duties by maintaining the purity of the mosque. UGC Members Professor Dr. Mohammad Yousuf Ali Mollah, Professor Dr. Md. Akhtar Hossain, Professor Dr. M. Shah Nowaz Ali, UGC Secretary Dr. Md. Khaled and all officers and staff of UGC, among others were present on the occasion, says a press release.
