City Desk :
Officials and experts at a seminar have stressed on creating more skilled workforces through popularizing technical and vocational education among young generations to accelerate national development. They viewed this at the seminar on ‘Needs to increase the industrial- institute linkage’ organized by Rangpur Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at its
conference room recently in observance of the Technical and Vocational Education Week- 2022 in the city.
Earlier, Mayor of Rangpur Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa inaugurated observance of the week by releasing balloons on the RPI campus as the chief guest, reports BSS.A colorful rally with participation of government and non-government officials, teachers and students of public and private technical and vocational educational institutions of the city was brought out from the RPI premises on the city streets.
Later, Divisional Commissioner Md Abdul Wahhab Bhuiyan attended the seminar as the chief guest with RPI Principal Engineer Mohammad Faisal Mufti in the chair.
Deputy Director (Local Government) Zilufa Sultana, Director (Planning and Development) of the Directorate of Technical Education Engineer Md Akhter Uz Zaman and its Director (Deputy Secretary) at Rangpur Regional Office Khandaker Md Nahid Hassan spoke as special guests. Attached Officer of the Directorate of Technical Education at its Rangpur Regional Office Md AHM Zakaria Shahid delivered the keynote essay.
He focused on the importance of technical and vocational education and gaining of appropriate skills, abilities and competencies by young generations as necessary equipment to adapt to the real work situation and contribute to the development of society.
The speakers said technical and vocational education has become popular among young students with increasing admission rate as per the government’s call to produce skilled technical workforces, engineers, planners and architects for building a developed nation.The chief guest narrated the essence of ICT-based science, technical and vocational education for producing skilled human resources to accelerate national advancement and make the fourth industrial revolution a success in the competitive 21st century.
