Awami League is focused on building skills of workers, says PM Hasina in New York

The government is trying to build the capacity of manpower in Bangladesh to boost productivity, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said at a meeting of the Global Deal in New York.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 19 Sept 2017, 11:26 AM
Updated : 19 Sept 2017, 11:27 AM

The premier is currently attending the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York.

“Capacity building is the key to ensuring better productivity. So we are focused on that,” she said in a reply to a query from Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who moderated the one-year follow-up meeting of the Global Deal.

Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, along with representatives of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and International Labour Organisation or ILO, launched Global Deal in New York in September 2016.

The Global Deal aims to jointly address the challenges in the global labour market and enable all people to benefit from globalisation.

Sixteen countries including Bangladesh, Sweden and South Africa, and ILO, Oxfam, H&M and Scania among nine trade groups and unions are the members of the platform.

Hasina claimed that per capita income of people in Bangladesh have gone up three times due to different development projects that her government had taken in the last nine years.

 

Economic growth and social progress have pushed up the productivity of the overall manpower in Bangladesh in recent times, she added.

The ruling Awami League chief mentioned the formation of the National Skills Development Authority or NSDA.

Under the Prime Minister’s Office or PMO, NSDA coordinates between the capacity building activities of 22 ministries and divisions, she said.

She further mentioned the formation of the Tripartite Consultative Council or TCC for the garment sector that came as an advisory body for industrial relations between workers and factory owners.

“Dialogues among stakeholders are important to ensure sustainability of the industrial sector and ensure labour rights.”