Press Release
Chittagong Mohila Polytechnic Institute this week inaugurated a new competency-based sewing machine operator’s training program for women with disabilities.
Ambassador William Hanna, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh inaugurated the program, with Mr Md Shahjahan Mian, Director General, Directorate of Technical Education and Mr Arthur Shears, Chief Technical Advisor, ILO TVET Reform Project in Bangladesh.
The course is based on a model developed through the ILO TVET Reform Project that was first piloted successfully with the Directorate of Technical Education, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed and Interfab Shirt Manufacturing. The market driven vocational skills training course prepares the trainees for work as machine operators in Bangladesh’s quickly growing readymade garments (RMG) industry.