The government will provide skill development training to 15 lakh people under a project of the Finance Division of the Finance Ministry.
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith made the disclosure in his budget speech on Thursday.
"You will be happy to know that the Finance Division has undertaken a project titled "Skills for Employment Investment Programme" to enhance skills of 15 lakh people in three phases", he said.
A total of 32 government training institutes under three ministries, SME division of the Bangladesh Bank, PKSF, and nine industry associations together will provide quality and job-oriented training.
The minister said at least 70% of the trainees would be employed in the relevant industries.
Besides, the Industry Skill Councils will be strengthened so that they can conduct labour market survey, formulate training curriculum and evaluate them.
"Moreover, we have adopted a plan to establish 30 Centres of Excellence (CoE) in 15 industries to impart quality training. In the first phase, work is in progress to establish a Centre of Excellence in the 31 information technology sector in FY 2015-16", he said.
The minister also noted that an initiative had been taken to get the certificates awarded by this project endorsed by the ASEAN countries.
To this end, we have taken steps, in collaboration with Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA) under a twinning programme, to improve the standard of the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
