Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the flourishing of technical education played pivotal role to make Bangladesh a middle income country. “When the grand alliance government took power, the rate of students’ admission in technical education was lower than one percent. But the rate has upgraded to 10 percent now, as the government has taken different steps in the previous few years,” he said. The minister said this on Wednesday while addressing as the chief guest at the inaugural function of Anjuman Mokhlesur Rahman Polytechnic Institute financed by Anjuman Mafidul Islam, a charitable organisation, at Shyamali in the city.Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, MP, Administration and Coordination Committee Chairman of Anjuman Mafidul Islam MR Osmani and its executive director Kazi Abul Hasem spoke with Chairman of the organisation M Shamsul Haque Chisti in the chair. The minister said the government has undertaken initiatives to upgrade the rate of admission in technical education to 20 per cent till 2020. In this regard, new one lakh students will be admitted into 49 public polytechnic institutes across the country, he added. Nahid said a project to set up more 23 polytechnic institutes has been taken and time-befitting new courses will be introduced to enhance the standard of the institutes. Because of massive expansion of technical and technological education, a technology-based skilled manpower has been created in recent years in the country, he added.
