Speakers for building skilled workforce

Officials at a discussion have stressed on providing technical education and training to youths for turning them into skilled workforces to accelerate national development.

They viewed this at a discussion jointly organised by district administration and Department of Youth Development (DYD) in observance of the National Youth Day-2021 at Town Hall auditorium here on Monday afternoon.

Divisional Commissioner Md Abdul Wahhab Bhuiyan inaugurated the observance of the day by hoisting the national flag and addressed the discussion as the chief guest with Deputy Commissioner Md Asib Ahsan in the chair.

Deputy Inspector General of Rangpur Range Police Devdas Bhattacharyya, Additional Commissioner of Police of Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Mehedul Karim, District Council Chairman Advocate Chhafia Khanom, President of district Awami League Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, its General Secretary

Advocate Rezaul Karim Razu, President of city Awami League Shafiur Rahman Shafi and its General Secretary Tushar Kanti Mandal addressed as special guests.

In his welcome speech, the Deputy Commissioner said youths are contributing the maximum to the process of building a developed ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

He stressed on turning all male and female youths into skilled workforce through providing necessary training and education for enhancing their knowledge and expertise, innovation and self confidence to speed up productivity for national uplift.

The chief guest discussed the massive steps taken by the present government to turn male and female youths into skilled workforces for making them self- reliant through their own initiatives, entrepreneurships and income generating activities (IGAs).

He lauded achievements of youths in nation-building activities and remembered their glorious contribution to the historic language movement, 1969 mass upsurge and War of Liberation to achieve the hard-earned national independence.

“The youths should avail the facilities provided by the government to become self-reliant through IGAs and contribute to building a developed Bangladesh by 2041 as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” he said.

Later, he distributed certificates and cheques of loans to the National Youth Award winning youth entrepreneurs, successful self-employment creator youths and trained youths to launch small-scale enterprises and self- employment for IGAs.