Officials and experts at a dialogue have stressed on turning youths into skilled manpower by imparting technical and vocational training and education to further increase productivity and accelerate development.
They made the observation at the divisional level dialogue on ‘Employment of Youths’ arranged by Village Development Centre (VDC) recently at the conference room of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Rangpur.
Rangpur Technical Training Centre (RTTC), Department of Women Affairs and Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) extended assistance in arranging the event participated by male and female youths from allover Rangpur division.
With Executive Director of VDC Moniruzzaman Mian in the char, Deputy Director of DAE for Rangpur Dr Sarwarul Haque attended the dialogue as the chief guest.
Principal of RTTC Engineer Md. Lutfar Rahman, Deputy Director of the Department of Women Affairs Kawser Pervin and President of RCCI Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu addressed the event a special guests. Engineer Rahman discussed importance of the ICT-based and modern science, technical and vocational education to ensure need-based knowledge and skill to turn huge youth population into human resources. “The present government has put maximum importance on popularising technical and vocational education to produce more skilled youth workforce like engineers, planners and architects on way to build a developed Bangladesh,” he added.
