Chittagong Bureau :
Young Bangladeshi engineer Towfiqul Zakaria now working at Singapore shipyard passed in Electrical & Electronics engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology(CUET) in 2009.
After working in Bangladesh initially, he has been working now at ship building industry for the last two and A half years. After gathering experiences in ship building in Singapore, this young engineer confidently told that this type big industry like Singapore can be set up in Chittagong. There is enough land space in Chittagong like Singapore.Zakaria hails from Halishahar of Chittagong. After passing from CUET he had worked for two years in Western Marine Ship yard , a pioneer Bangladeshi shipbuilding industry in Chittagong. He was recruited by Singaporean shipbuilding company Jurong then he left Bangladesh for Singapore.After coming over here, he changed his work place and joined Jaya ship building company as an electrical engineer.
While talking to this reporter , Zakaria, having a professional visa, disclosed that this type of visa holders has dignified opportunities of work in Singapore.. Zakaria wants to work here for a longer time to learn. He disclosed that the most modern ships of the world are built here. He wants to work in this style after returning to his own country.
He told that there is no enough land space in Singapore still due to the patronization of the government this industry has become such big. In our country at Patenga and southern bank of river karnaphuli and Kulagoan ,we have enough land space that would help us to set up very big industry.
A confident Zakaria asserted that if opportunities are created in Bangladesh with the increase of experts we can divert the ship building orders to our country those are now coming to Singapore.
This young engineer said that now we simply break the old ships and manufacture some internal small ships. Skilled engineers and laborers are working there now they can build and repair big oceangoing ships.
