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National Service Project

Govt mulls jobs for youths

Staff Correspondent
Ihe government has taken an initiative to train up the unemployed youths who have passed the HSC or equivalent examinations and provide them with jobs for two years aiming at reducing unemployment problem from the country.
Initially, the government will launch the programme at 14 upazilas of Kurigram and Barguna districts for the fiscals 2009-10 and 2010-11. Gradually, it will be extended throughout the country under the 'National Service' project, said State Minister for Youth and Sports Md Ahad Ali Sarker yesterday.
The minister said this as the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of a workshop on 'Drafting course of plan and strategy of implementation' organ-ised by Department of Youth Development (DYD) at its conference room as part of initial procedure for undertaking the project.
"Poverty reduction is one of key elec-'Y’flP^^&e?,^ Ihe ruling^party. Wej^rq tiNiriR Miir besr to^fiilfirour pledges, because the people voted us to serve them," he said.
Ahad sought cooperation and recommendations from all, especially from the government officials and other stake- holders, to make the project fruitful.
Presenting a keynote paper at the workshop, DYD Director General Fakhrul Islam disclosed different aspects of the proposed project.
Under 'Pilot Programme' of this project, 1988 unemployed youths of these 14 upazilas will firstly be trained up for three months in accordance with nine training modules, he said.
A DYD study said the numbers of unemployed youths might stand at 98,000 across the country with the ratio of 70 percent of total youth unemployed and the rest 30 percent are might show reluctance to take the service.
During the period, every trainee will be given Tk 100 per day and during the post-training job period, they will be given Tk 200 per day.
The youths would be trained mainly in physical education, character building, disaster management, social welfare education, basic computer education, health service education and agriculture .Wto^MiRO ? ^.H - ft -d I • r.-H -
Completing trai nog ^ ^jon.( th$ youths will be posted in jobs in their respective and adjacent upazilas. The jobs may include teaching in primary and secondary schools, working in local healthcare centre and agriculture
research centre, working as community police, forecasting natural disaster-related messages and alike.
Fakhrul Islam placed a set of recommendations for forming three-layer committees to implement the project. These include inter-ministry committee headed by minister of youth and sports ministry, district implementation committee led by deputy commissioner (DC) and upazila implementation committee by upazila chairman.
The committees along with the districts and upazila unit offices of DYD would monitor the development activities of the youths.
He also proposed that a senior adviser, a junior adviser and a master trainer team in every district be appointed to draw up guidelines and incorporate the activities in the project.
"Selection of real unemployed youths, achieving credibility, maintaining standard of quality and expansion of this project are the major challenges of
, j^)]en^ntaijon,”FakhruFQqied.- jj kj Addressing the workshop,Youth and» Sports Secretary Ehsan ul Fattah directed the DYD officials to finalise the draft proposals within the shortest possible time so that they could submit this to the cabinet for approval.