By NNN-BSS,
Kurigram (Bangladesh) : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to launch the epoch-making National Service Pilot Project (NSPP) Saturday from Kurigram to fulfill another pre- election pledge of providing jobs to the country’s unemployed youths.
The administration and concerned authorities have completed all preparations to launch the historical programme of providing jobs at the door steps and the people from all walks in the society are eagerly waiting for welcoming Sheikh Hasina in Kurigram.
The Prime Minister will formally launch the NSPP at Kurigram Government College ground in presence of the MPs, beneficiaries, elite, officials and common people and later address a public rally on a podium built on 124 feet long boat there.
As per the pre-election pledges, the present government launches first phase of the NSPP in all nine upazilas of Kurigram and five upazilas of Barguna districts from Saturday by providing jobs to 13,550 unemployed youths including men and women.
Preliminary works for expanding the programme have been continuing in Gopalganj district and the same will be launched throughout the country in the coming years to provide jobs to all unemployed youths with minimum SSC level qualifications.
Youth Development Department (YDD) sources in Kurigram told BSS that 32,554 youths with requisite qualifications in all nine upazilas were preliminarily identified as unemployed and 9,950 of them were selected primarily for the jobs.
The selected youths will be provided with three-month training on 10 trades and subjects, and for this, five- day training courses of 292 Master Trainers have already been completed at 31 venues in the district.
Similarly, after identifying 13,094 unemployed youths in all five upazilas of Barguna, 3,600 of them have been selected primarily for providing jobs after their three-month long training to be conducted by 138 trained Master Trainers.
The selected 13,550 youths of Kurigram and Barguna will get Taka 100 per day during their three-month training courses and later they will get Taka 200 wages after getting jobs primarily for two-year period in these respective districts.
Primary selections of the unemployed youths, aged between 18 and 35 years, have been conducted as per the concerned policies, senior officials in the administration said today.
While selecting the unemployed candidates, special emphasis were given on those who are crossing their age limits for government services, remaining unemployed for a long time and children of the Freedom Fighters or from the distressed families.
Besides, those who were left from the primary selection lists would be able to be enrolled later for getting jobs under the NSPP, the officials said.
The selected unemployed youths will get the three-month trainings on nation and character building activities, disaster management and social welfare works, basic knowledge, health and family planning, education and physical education, forestry and environment, agriculture, public security, law and order and
services of the union and upazila parishads.
The training courses will be conducted using ten modules and a curriculum has already been worked out and the District Coordination Committees of the NSPP have been empowered for selecting other training subjects based on the local problems and needs.
After completion of the training courses, the unemployed youths will be appointed and attached to the different government departments, primary schools and other working places, primarily for a two year term.
Kurigram Deputy Commissioner M Asaduzzaman, Deputy Directors Shariful Islam of Kurigram and Mostaq Ahmed of Barguna of the YDD told that all preparations have already been completed for launching the NSPP by the Prime Minister tomorrow.
Kurigram district Awami League secretary and Member of Parliament Jafar Ali told BSS that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has highly honoured the Kurigram people by launching the
epoch-making NSPP from Kurigram.
“The Kurigram people will remain grateful for ever to the Prime Minister, daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and will further strengthen her hands in building a developed digital Bangladesh,” he said.