Govt to provide IT training for unsuccessful BCS candidates

The government is thinking over to provide global world class IT training to the unsuccessful BCS candidates, whose age limit have crossed 30 years for ensuring their better access to the job markets.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this at a view exchange meeting on Leveraging ICT Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) project on Wednesday.

Palak directed the officials concerned of the LICT project to introduce special batch, if necessary, on IT training for the students, who failed to get jobs after qualifying in BSC examination.

Ernst and Young (EY), a UK-based leading global professional services company, have been assigned to provide world-class IT training to 30,000 Bangladeshi youths to meet the demand of skilled-manpower of IT industry, he added.

Of the 30,000, EY will give Top UP IT (specialized) training to 10,000 IT and Science graduates and foundation training to 20,000 youths of Higher Secondary level within three years.

They have already given training to several thousand students at university and college level, Palak added.

ICT Secretary Shyam Sundar Sikder, Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council SM Ashraful Islam, senior officials of the LICT project and IT experts, among others, attended the meeting.