Youths should acquire knowledge on different productive and other income-generating fields to get jobs as attaining ideas is the precondition to make themselves fit for the job markets.
Job scopes in various fields, including ICT, automation, digitization and online and other manual businesses, have been generated. So, the youths should seize the opportunities through equipping them with appropriate knowledge.
Experts and development activists came up with the observation while addressing a dialogue and view-sharing meeting styled "Youths Employment in Rajshahi: Problems and Prospects" at a city hotel in Rajshahi on Monday evening.
Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) and Barendra Region Youth Organisations Forum (BRYOF) jointly organised the dialogue discussing and devising ways and means on how to promote job opportunities for unemployed youths.
Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat, Assistant Director of Department of Youth Development Alam Ali, Assistant Director of Department of Manpower,Employment Abdul Hannan and photojournalist Zabid Hossain and business leader Sekendar Ali addressed the meeting as resource persons.
Youth leaders Atiqur Rahman, Sabitry Hembrom and Shaikh Tasnim Jamal also spoke, while Shahidul Islam, Regional Coordinator of BARCIK, moderated the discussion besides illustrating the aims and objectives of the meeting.
The discussants viewed the responsive and effective role of the youth volunteer organisations as very important towards supplementing the government efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 and smart Bangladesh by 2041.
More other youth organisations should come forward and work together with better understanding to infuse dynamism in all the nation-building process and activities to make those sustainable in the greater interest of achieving SDGs and smart Bangladesh within the stipulated time.
Akbarul Hassan Millat told the meeting that many of the SDGs were set with the proposals of Bangladesh which were also reflected in the ten special initiatives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Actually the Prime Minister's Special 10 Initiatives and SDGs are tied in a single string, he said, adding that the country witnessed remarkable development through implementation of these initiatives.
He urged the youths to play their due role so that the officials concerned remained liberal in delivering information to people to ensure accountability and transparency in public offices.
In his remarks, Abdul Hannan urged the entrepreneurs and business leaders to lessen the gradually mounting pressure of unemployment through providing jobs to the unemployed youths.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha