Technical education role vital to build smart Bangladesh

 Role of technical and vocational education
coupled with post-education employment can be the crucial means of smart
Bangladesh envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Simultaneously, technical and vocational students should be enriched with
power of skill and innovation for transforming themselves into competent
workforces to meet the gradually mounting demands of the modern era.

Technical experts came up with the observation while addressing a seminar
styled “Role of Technical Education and Way Forward in building Smart
Bangladesh” and Skills Competition- 2023 held here today.

Rajshahi Mohila Polytechnic Institute (RMPI) organized the seminar and
competition at its conference hall to mark the Technical and Vocational
Education Week- 2023 supported by the Technical and Madrasha Education
Division and the Department of Technical Education.

RMPI Librarian Abu Nasir Muhammad Siddique Hossain and Instructor Tahmid
Sadique presented the keynote paper titled “TVET Enrolment Current Trends and
Strategies to Build Smart Bangladesh” in the seminar with RMPI Principal Omar
Faruque in the chair.

District Education Officer Nasir Uddin, local unit president of Institution
of Diploma Engineers Aminul Haque, Assistant Director of the Department of
Social Services Dr Abdullah Al Firoj and Principal of Technical Training
Center Engineer Imdadul Haque spoke on the occasion as resource persons
disseminating their expertise on the issue.

The speakers opined that all students of diploma engineering courses must
attain competency as it is very important for their success in professional
life.

Education Officer Nasir Uddin said the present government under the prudent
and farsighted leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has attached
priority to the technical and vocational educations for boosting the number
of competent workforces.

The government has been expanding technical institutions to the grassroots
level aimed at transforming the youths living in villages into competent
workforce through bringing them under the need-based technical and vocational
educations.

In the daylong contest, 15 innovations and projects were presented for
evaluation. Of those, three projects, ‘Smart Voice Control System with
Artificial Intelligences’, ‘DOERS, International Online Marketplace Web
Application’ and ‘Mango Delight’, were judged as first, second and third
respectively.

On the occasion, memorandums of understanding have also been signed with six
industrial establishments for employment of the RMPI technical and vocational
graduates. (BSS)