BSS :
A total of 92,419 youths were imparted capacity development training for making them self-reliant together with transforming them into nation-building forces during the last around 15 years, an official said.
He said institutional and non-institutional training were arranged for them on nine income-generating trades.
Youngsters were trained in fisheries, poultry, dairy, cattle-fattening and animal husbandry, while young women learned tailoring, sewing, block, boutique and computer, he added.
Golam Mahbub, Deputy Director of the Department of Youth Development (DYD), said 70,645 youths both males and females were given training on various trades and vocations as part of regular training activities.
Besides, 21,774 others were brought under training on behalf of the project titled “Strengthening of Upazila level training activities for generating employment and self-employment”.
Under the government’s National Service Programme (NSP), 857 youths were benefited and Taka 11.78 crore was spent in one upazila in the district from 2017 to 2020.
Golam Mahbub said NSP is a unique programme for the unemployed youth for capacity building as well as involving them in nation building activities.
They have so far brought 480 youths of the backward rural areas and the char (riverbed) in particular under computer and networking training through mobile training vans under a project.
“We are bringing 40 youths, specially the physically challenged ones, under the two-month training from each of the seven upazilas in the district,” Mahbub said.
Main thrust of the project titled “Technology Empowerment Centre on Wheels for Underprivileged Rural Young People of Bangladesh” is to make the targeted youths skilled through ICT training.
Besides, they have brought 12,600 other youths under family-based youth credit programmes in the district.
Abdur Rahim, 34, is now operating multifarious businesses with capital of around Taka 78 lakh as he makes profit of Taka 38 lakh annually inspiring many others to follow the lucrative income-generating ventures.
Resident of Jhaluka village under Durgapur Upazila in Rajshahi district, Rahim began fish farming first on six bigha of ponds in 2014.
