Noted industrialists and business community leaders highly lauded the role of Underprivileged Children’s Educational Programmes in Bangladesh (UCEP-Bangladesh) in producing skilled workforce for local industries.
They made the observations yesterday at the inaugural ceremony of the day-long UCEP Trainee Fair- 2016 arranged by Rangpur Regional UCEP Office on its UCEP Rangpur Technical School ground at Dharmodas area in Rangpur under Job Placement Component.
Chairperson of UCEP Regional Employers’ Committee for Rangpur Region and former President of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu attended the ceremony and visited different stalls as the chief guest.
With Rangpur Regional Manager of UCEP-Bangladesh Engineer Mohammad Golzar Hossain in the chair, its Programme Officer SM Shameem Ahsan, its Deputy Programme Officer (DPO-Job Placement)) Abdur Razzaque Khondker, former Directors of RCCI Fazlul Haque and Rabi Somani attended the ceremony.
Owners and representatives of Ansar Traders, Kazi Farms Group, R D Food, Rangs Motors Limited, Primi Pusti Limited and other industries, enterprises, factories and employer organisations of Rangpur region were present.
In the beginning, S M Shameem Ahsan narrated the UCEP’s activities in transforming the underprivileged working children into skilled human resources by providing technical, vocational education and training to meet demand of local industries.
Engineer Mohammad Golzar Hossain said UCEP Rangpur Technical School has been providing education and training programmes on various trades for the underprivileged working children and assisting them in getting jobs to change their fate.
He sought continuous cooperation of all concerned, including industrialists and employers, to enhance activities of UCEP-Bangladesh through providing education and training to the underprivileged children to turn them into skilled workforces.
Highly lauding the UCEP activities, chief guest Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu called for developing more innovative programmes to meet demand for skilled workforce in local industries through producing skilled workforce from UCEP Technical Schools.
“The UCEP has earned reputation by contributing to the national economy and meeting demand of skilled human workforce for renowned industries like Pran Group, Walton Group, Abul Khayer Group, Nasir Group and many foreign industries,” he said.
He expressed confidence in the abilities of UCEP to meet newer challenges and said that more underprivileged children would be turned into skilled workforce to avail job opportunities in the region without going to the other regions in future.
