Amu for expanding small, medium industries

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu yesterday  underscored the need for expanding the labour-intensive small and medium industries instead of high-tech ones in the country's present context, reports UNB.
 While addressing a function marking the inauguration of work on the building of Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Centre (Bitac) Tool Institute, he also said it is possible to create huge employment through the expansion of light engineering industry.
As per the directives of the Prime 
Minister, a planned industrial city for the light engineering industry is being established at Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital, Amu said, adding that work is on to set up separate industrial cities for harmful chemical, plastic and printing industries.
Noting that the country needs a good number of manpower with technical knowledge for the industrialisation, he lamented that only 10 percent students get enrolled in technical education every year whereas about 70 percent students receive technical education in the developed countries.
The minister also said although around 1 crore Bangladeshis are currently working abroad, they are being deprived of fair wages for lack of technical knowledge.
Additional Secretary to the Industries Ministry Sushen Chandra Das and Project Director Dr Syed M Ihsanul Karim also addressed the function with Bitac 
Managing Director Dilip Kumar Sharma in the chair.

 

Amu for expanding small, medium industries

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu yesterday underscored the need for expanding the labour-intensive small and medium industries instead of high-tech ones in the countrys present context, reports UNB. While addressing a function marking the inauguration of work on the building of Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Centre (Bitac) Tool Institute, he also said it is possible to create huge employment through the expansion of light engineering industry. As per the directives of the Prime Minister, a planned industrial city for the light engineering industry is being established at Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital, Amu said, adding that work is on to set up separate industrial cities for harmful chemical, plastic and printing industries. Noting that the country needs a good number of manpower with technical knowledge for the industrialisation, he lamented that only 10 percent students get enrolled in technical education every year whereas about 70 percent students receive technical education in the developed countries. The minister also said although around 1 crore Bangladeshis are currently working abroad, they are being deprived of fair wages for lack of technical knowledge. Additional Secretary to the Industries Ministry Sushen Chandra Das and Project Director Dr Syed M Ihsanul Karim also addressed the function with Bitac Managing Director Dilip Kumar Sharma in the chair.