Two lakh jobs every year in BPO sector from 2021: Joy
BPO Summit Bangladesh
2016 begins
STAFF REPORTER
Prime Ministers Information and Communication Technology Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday expressed his confidence that the country would be able to create two lakh jobs every year from 2021 in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector.
Todays BPO industries require high number of employees every year. Both public sector as well as private sector could put their best efforts to take opportunity . . . The goal is by 2021, we will create 200,000 BPO jobs in Bangladesh every year and earn and earn up to 1 billion dollar, he said.
The observation came from the Premiers adviser on ICT while he was inaugurating a two-day BPO Summit Bangladesh 2016 in the capital yesterday.
Organised by ICT Division with assistance of the Department of ICT and Bangladesh Association of Call Center and Outsourcing (BACCO), the function was presided over by State Minister for ICT Affairs Zunaid Ahmed Palak.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Dr Shahjahan Mahmood, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Posts Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry Imran Ahmad and ICT Secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder addressed the function, among others.
Joy also said: If we can not strengthen the domestic market, we can not do well in the global market. Our local BPO institutions have to be branded internationally.
We need more employees and we have taken the initiative to make 40,000 IT experts in this sector. To assist the BPO sector, the government will build ten IT training center; where the training will be provided to the youth generation, he added.
PDF edition of text books are available to the website besides the printed published text books of schools. We are going to bring textbook e-book version, Joy also said.
Many of our computer science graduates are joining Google, Facebook and Microsoft . . . their qualification are not less than international standard, he added.
Narrating the supports of the present government for local industry especially in BPO industry, he said the annual ICT expenditure of Bangladesh government has already exceeded one billion US dollar.
He said many activities of the countrys agencies including National Board of Revenue (NBR) and local government are being done by outsourcing to local companies.
He also said the government has taken an initiative to set up ten IT training centres across the country to support BPO industry and supply IT experts.
The summit has been started with a slogan Local experience, Global Business, said the State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak.
According to KPMG, Bangladesh, the cost of operating a business in Bangladesh is forty per cent less when compared to other countries,
Palak added.
The government has already allocated massive office spaces for the leading local and foreign start-up companies at Janata Tower in Dhaka.
This time many local and foreign companies have been participated to this summit. Among them, some prominent start-up companies were offering jobs to the right candidates.
Our company providing services to the back office support of the foreign renowned companies for more than seven years. We also deliver services to the RMG sector of Bangladesh where all the services will be integrated in to one platform, said the Head of IT of Hello World Communications Engr. Suvra Dev Kar (one of the leading IT solution provider).
Houlin Zhao ITU Secretary-General, The chairman of BTRC Dr. Shahjahan Mahmood, Secretary of Information and Communication Technology Sham Shundar Shikder and President of BACCO Ahmadul Hoq were also the guest speaker present at the event.
ICT division, DOICT (Department of Information and Communication Technology), BACCO, are the organiser of this summit. 10 sessions and two workshops are to be held this year. Twenty foreign prominent speakers are to be participated at this summit.
The Summit agenda has been carefully crafted to raise and address a variety of issues that Bangladesh faces to emerge as a global outsourcing hub aligned with the Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021. It also paves the way for industry experts and clients to meet under a roof and exchange their ideas and thoughts for an enhanced vision and making new steps towards innumerable possibilities.
Many speakers including more than 25 foreign speakers will share their knowledge and expertise in the seminars. There is facility of on-the-spot recruitment in the summit.
