Sources familiar with the ICT ministry say the LICT in collaboration with IT and ITES industries will select the FTFILs as per skills demand
Some 4,000 fast-track future IT leaders (FTFILs) would get jobs in Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Service (ITES) companies soon, as a government project has agreed to provide support to the companies for building up the FTFILs with training as per their skills demand.
The project titled “Leveraging ICT (LICT) for Growth, Employment and Governance Project” of Bangladesh Computer Company (BCC) under ICT Ministry would offer a package of incentives for the IT and ITES companies against recruitment of FTFLs and their training, officials said.
They said the initiative was part of the government’s plan to create 34,000 direct and 120,000 indirect jobs in the IT and ITES companies under LICT Project.
The World Bank would be providing $70m credit for implementing the LICT Project within five years.
Sources familiar with the ICT ministry said the LICT in collaboration with IT and ITES industries would select the FTFILs as per skills demand, especially in the areas of software development, business process outsourcing and IT/ITES related management.
“In line with the government’s plan to build Digital Bangladesh, the ICT ministry has launched LICT Project under BCC to build IT learning manpower of 34,000 in the country by providing them with world-class IT training,” said ICT Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan.
He said the LICT Project would help meeting the skills demand of IT companies and contribute to enhancing the export earnings of booming ICT sector.
Unveiling the plan to build FTFLs, Project Director of LICT M Rezaul Karim said an incentive package would be provided to the IT and ITES industries to recruit the talented fresh graduates as FTFILs.
The companies would train them according to their needs and after completion of six-month training, the trainees would be absorbed by the companies as FTFLs, he said.
Karim said the FTFILs would be brought under international certification by holding examination and their activities would be monitored online by the LICT Project for a certain period of time.
He also said initially the program would be launched for building 900 educated youths as FTFLs and befitting to the skills demand of IT and ITES companies by December this year.
Out of 900 initial FTFILs, 300 would be selected for software development, 300 for BPO and 300 for IT/ITES related management, Karim said adding that leading IT experts of IT and ITES companies would conduct the six-month training.
He said the LICT Project authorities have already asked the Bangladesh Association of Software Information and Services (BASIS), a platform of the country’s IT and ITES companies, to send the list of manpower required for IT and ITES companies.
“We expect to complete the recruiting process of 900 future IT leaders and their training programs within six months,” he added.
The candidates who would be selected for job in three categories has to have a graduation degree in science or at least a SSC/HSC graduate in science background and for BPO Higher Secondary School passed.
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