There are plans to make current employment at home and abroad more secure and steps have been taken to create more opportunities for job seekers, according to Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.
In his budget speech he said the government has already created one million employment opportunities for young people in the IT sector, and another one million people will be employed within 2021 to achieve the goal of Digital Bangladesh.
Quoting the implementation of 'Sustainable Development Goals', 'Vision 2041' and 'Delta Plan-2100' as having created huge employment opportunities in the country for people skilled in science, technology and technical knowledge, the Minister thanked the right policies and fruitful action plans of the government, as a large section of the youth of Bangladesh is already enjoying the benefits of such modern and technology dependent employment.
“Under ‘Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP)’ to provide inclusive skills development training based on the demand of the industry sector, the government will provide skills development training to 8,41,680 persons in 11 priority industries by 2024. In addition, the National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) is working to coordinate skills development training programmes under 28 ministries to accelerate skills development programs,” the Minister said while making the budget speech in the National Parliament Thursday.
“The programmes to maintain productivity of the workers during the pandemic, pay their wages and allowances on time and implement multiple incentive packages to prevent layoffs and unemployment, will be strengthened in the future to ensure welfare of the workers, improvement of workplace conditions in export-oriented and other industries, elimination of child labor and employment of female workers.”, he said adding that the government has formed 23 crisis management committees across 64 districts.
According to the Minister, following the Overseas Employment and Immigration Act 2013, activities are underway to create a database for different professional categories for hiring workers from the Data Bank. Services of the recruiting agents are being monitored on a regular basis to maintain discipline in immigration management and enhance overseas employment.
“To ease pressure on domestic employment, a target has been set to create 21 lakh foreign employment opportunities in three years (7 lakh per year) including sending an average of 1,000 workers abroad from each upazila following the government’s Election Manifesto of 2018.”, he mentioned.
“To implement the target, the required manpower for 40 technical training centers has been created, district employment and manpower offices have been set up in another 22 districts, 7 new labor welfare wings have been set up abroad, and a detailed plan has been adopted by the government to provide world class skills development training facilities including setting up of 8 Divisional Employment and Manpower Offices in their own premises in Divisional headquarters.”, he added.
