Bangladesh marks National Textile Day with critical call to ground chops gap
Bangladesh observed its sixth National Textile Day with renewed emphasis on strengthening the country’s cloth pool, as assiduity leaders advised that widening skill gaps hang the long- term competitiveness of the nation’s largest artificial sector. The event, held under the theme, Growth of the cloth sector, substance of the frugality, was attended by Sheikh Bashir Uddin, Adviser to the Ministry of fabrics and Jute, as principal guest.
A crucial highlight of the commemorations was a special factory named Resilience and Reinvention Creating Skilled Professionals for the Textile and Apparel Sector of Bangladesh, aimed at assessing how effectively the education system is preparing unborn cloth professionals. Dr Mohammad Abbas Uddin Shiyak, Associate Professor at BUTEX and Adviser at Reed Consultancy, underlined the growing dissociate between academic training and assiduity requirements.
Dr Abbas Uddin said graduates retain strong theoretical foundations but frequently warrant the hands- on specialized capabilities needed on ultramodern product bottoms. This mismatch, he noted, is making job placement more delicate while pushing manufacturers to hire foreign experts for critical specialized places — a trend that weakens original competitiveness and results in a significant exodus of foreign currency. Assiduity representatives echoed these enterprises, describing the issue as a binary challenge for both the pool and the wider frugality.
Speakers called for structural reforms in cloth education, prompting institutions to transition to faculty- grounded, machine- concentrated and assiduity- integrated training models. Priority areas include strengthening laboratory structure, expanding exploration capabilities, enhancing faculty development and enforcing rigorous externship programmes that reflect real- world surroundings. similar advancements, they said, would help graduates enter the assiduity as professed professionals without the need for expansivepost-employment retraining.
Representatives from the Bangladesh Technical Education Board, public and private universities, cloth sodalities, shop possessors and ministry officers shared in the session. conversations constantly stressed the need to modernise classes in line with rapid-fire technological shifts across global cloth and vesture value chains.
Addressing attendees, Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin prompted near collaboration between academia and assiduity to insure graduates are equipped for current manufacturing demands. He emphasised that sustained import growth and the protection of Bangladesh’s global request position depend on a coordinated and unborn-ready strategy.
Presiding over the event, Bilkis Jahan Rimi assured that the Ministry of fabrics and Jute would take comprehensive measures to address the challenges linked, pledging reforms that will strengthen the cloth education system and prepare the assiduity for arising global openings. Assiduity stakeholders expressed confidence that targeted reforms would support Bangladesh’s import intentions and support its competitive advantage in the global business.
