Noted author Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said on Monday that the country’s economy would really be boosted if the new generation could be turned into skilled workforce
through technical and technology-based education.
He said three groups of people — expatriate Bangladeshis, garment workers and farmers — have been making the highest contribution to the country’s economy so far.
‘The nation would really move ahead when the number of efficient workers would be higher than that of physical workers,’ said Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, also chief of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology computer science and engineering.
He was addressing the prize giving ceremony of IT quiz and computer programming competition as chief guest at the North East University of Bangladesh, a private university in Sylhet, in the afternoon.
NEUB vice-chancellor M Khalilur Rahman chaired the programme, which was addressed, among others, by NEUB trustee board chairman Iqbal Ahmed Chowdhury and its vice-chairman Afzal Miah, computer science and engineering head Ahsan Habib, CSE Society vice-president Sajedul Islam Sujan and general secretary Asiya Khanam.
-With New Age input
