Govt signs deal with IT firms for 1,000 jobs

The government has reached an agreement with the leading IT firms to provide job to 1,000 youngsters in the IT and IT enabled service (ITES) industries under an employment incentive scheme.
As per the agreement the World Bank financed Support to Development of Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park (SDKHP) under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division will give Tk 40,000 each to the 1,000 youngsters as stimulus to IT firms for providing necessary training in IT and ITES.
Initially, SDKHP on April 3,2014 signed separate agreement with the 19 IT firms to provide permanent job to 605 youngsters after giving trainings in various tracks including software, programming and web design.
“It's a beginning to create large number of employment in the IT sector under the government sponsor various programmes,” ICT Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan told the news agency.
He said the Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) project will create 34,000 IT professionals by providing them world-class training as per demand of the IT industry and the government will give incentive to the IT industries to ensure permanent job to them.
Khan said the government was now focusing on high-end training to create skilled-manpower.