Own reporter | Published in Banglabazar: September 10, 2020, 11:31 PM
The government has decided to provide jobs to one thousand youths in every upazila of the country every year.
This initiative is being taken for human development keeping in view the main growth and poverty alleviation aspirations for achieving high income status including eradication of absolute poverty by 2041.
The information was given at a public meeting titled 'Vision 2041 Implementation: Bangladesh's Perspective Plan 2021-2041' at the NEC conference room in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Thursday.
The Perspective Plan (2021-2041) deals with human resource development through quality education and the collection of demographic dividends. The program will be conducted.
In particular, it will include a knowledge-based economy organization, 100% literacy of the population, universal unpaid education for 12-year-olds, creation of training institutes for job-based skills acquisition, universal access to affordable health insurance schemes. And to provide job security for one thousand youths from each upazila every year.
The chief guests at the meeting were Planning Minister MA Mannan, Special Guest Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam and Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office. Ahmed Kaikaus.