Textile technology institute
The low investment, low technology and labour intensive garments industry has developed tremendously in the last two decades in Bangladesh. Huge demand of production ingredients like, nit & woven fabric, button, jeepers, level and packing materials of the garments industry created scope for backward linkage industrial units. A good number of industrial units have been set up in the last couple of years to cater to the demand of the garments industry, especially yarn producing spinning factories, fabric producing factories, processing dying and washing plants that have come up and created a good number of jobs. But these backward linkage industrial units are confronting shortage of technical experts in textile technology these days. On the other hand, every year thousands of crore is spent by the government of Bangladesh to impart general and religious education in public and private school and collages, which ultimately increases the number of unemployed educated youths. What a pity!
The situation is not different in Munshiganj district, which is adjacent to capital Dhaka. Thousands of youths here are interested to get technical education. So an institute of textile technology, which will impart undergraduate textile engineering education, can serve their cause.
We urge to the government to set up a textile technology institute to impart textile technology based education at diploma level in Munshiganj.
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