Human Resources Development

Separate ministry demanded

10 July 2010, 18:00 PM

Bss, Dhaka

Speakers at a seminar yesterday urged the government to introduce a separate ministry for Human Resources Development as it is working for establishing digital Bangladesh by 2021. They said this at a seminar on "Best HRD (Human Resource Development) Practices: Training and development-Bangladesh perspective" at the Jatiya Press Club in the city. Speaking as the chief guest, Commerce Minister Faruk Khan said, "We have many local HRD personnel with global standard. Our private organisations should give them opportunity to turn the human resource into human capital. Our government also thinks of having a separate ministry to look after HRD factor of the country." Eduext Global HRD Solutions, a HRD consulting and management firm, organised the seminar. The minister said, "We now live in an "Age of Wisdom'. This is the time when knowledge is not power but applied knowledge is power. Knowledge without its proper application has no value." The present government has given top priority to human resource development and public private partnership (PPP), he added. More private organisations should come forward to facilitate HRD resources for the development of human resources, he said. As a matter of fact, training is all about action for a desired skill required by human force. Education deals mostly with knowledge and understanding. Training deals with understanding, skill and action. Training embraces an understanding of the complex processes by which various factors that make up a situation interact, said the minister. Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, Rector of BPATC Dr Delwar Hossain, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Eastern University Dr Abdur Rab and Managing Director of Wonder Land Group Mostafizur Rahman, among others, spoke at the seminar.