26’th National Training Day in tomorrow
Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Jan-22,
The 26th National Training Day and 41st founding anniversary of Bangladesh Society for Training and Development
(BSTD) will be observed through various programmes in the country tomorrow.
On the eve of the day, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages wishing all success of the day’s programmes. “To expedite the socio-economic development of a country, skilled,
experienced, professional, service-oriented and industrious workforce is essential,” President M Abdul Hamid said in a message today.
Along with institutional education, there is no alternative to profession-based improvement and modern training to create skilled human resources, he added.
“The present government has taken the issue very seriously and drawn up different programmes for human resource development,” said the President. Abdul Hamid lauded the role of BSTD in observing the day and hoped that it
would continue its efforts to develop skilled manpower in the country. In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said realizing the importance of training, her government has taken various development and reform
programmes for the training sector.”Budget allocation for training sector has been increased. Priority has
been given to infrastructural development of the training centres,” she said, adding that course duration of the foundation training for the cadre service officers was extended to six months from four months.
She also said various reform programmes, including expanding the scope of training at home and abroad, is being implemented to develop Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) as a service-oriented and modern organization.
She hoped that the BSTD will act as an auxiliary force in the coming days in implementing the government’s ‘Vision-2041’ and contribute to building ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by the best Bengali of all times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by developing human resources.
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