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TEXTILE-INSTITUTE (with picture)
Textile Institute being built in Manda
RAJSHAHI, Oct 7, 2019 (BSS)- Construction works of a textile institute is progressing fast
here aimed at generating skilled manpower in executive level of the country’s textile and jute
industrial sector.
Initiated by the ministry of textile and jute, the project titled “Shaheed Kamruzzaman
Textile Institute” is being implemented by Bangladesh Army with an estimated cost of around
Taka 156.77 crore.
Being built on five acres of land at adjacent to Ferry Ghat area under Manda Upazila in
Naogaon district, the institute will contribute a lot towards economic development including
poverty reduction through enriching the recruitment sector of competent manpower in both home
and abroad.
Detailing a salient feature of the institute Project Director Abdur Raquib here told BSS
that it will conduct diploma-in-textile engineering course regularly side by side with
operating many other related trainings.
As a whole, the institute is intended to generate skilled human resources that will play
pivotal role to reduce national level poverty.
Construction works of a six-storied academic building, a six-storied male students’ hostel,
a three-storied female students’ hostel, a three-storied staffs’ dormitory and another three-
storied officers’ dormitory are on the final stage.
Besides, necessary infrastructure development works including spinning shed, dyeing shed,
weaving and knitting shed, workshop-cum-library and principal quarter are also progressing
fast.
Upon its successful implementation by June 2020, the institute will create scopes of
obtaining textile engineering course for many of the interested students.
Talking to BSS, Manda Upazila Chairman Sarder Jasim Uddin said the institute will open up a
new door of transforming the interested students into competent workforce for the textile and
jute industrial sector.
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