Recruitment under nat'l service scheme begins next month

FE Report

The government will introduce the national service scheme (NSS) from the next month, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said on Sunday.

Under the scheme, prepared in line with the election pledge made by the incumbent government, one educated member of each of the families would be provided with job.

The scheme will be introduced initially in Barguna and Kurigram districts and later it would be expanded all areas of the country, the finance minister said.

"The government, as per its election manifesto, will provide job to at least one educated member per family across the country. The programme will start from December next," AMA Muhith told reporters at the end of the inaugural session of a seminar at Sheraton Hotel.

"I have the desire to provide all youths having passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination with jobs under the NSS. The youths thus recruited would receive basic trainings for three months before their employment," he added.

Applications will be invited from those who have passed HSC or equivalent, and a list of the deserving candidates will be prepared, Muhith said.

Earlier, the finance minister inaugurated the seminar on 'Peace and Security in South Asia: Issues and Priorities for Regional Cooperation on Small and Light Weapons Control (SALW)' as the chief guest.

The regional seminar was organised to bring together South Asian governments, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SSARC), relevant United Nations agencies and several leading think tanks in South Asia to discuss issues and priorities for strengthening and developing regional cooperation on SALW control, said the organizer of the seminar.

Official delegates from Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and relevant UN agencies, SAARC secretariat and leading think tanks in South Asia attended the seminar.

Muhith in his written speech said the peace and security in South Asia has long been endangered due to the rapid and uncontrollable spread of small arms and light weapons.

"Easy availability of small arms and light weapons continues to worsen these crises. The proliferation of the same, to a great extent, has been contributing to social instability and political violence in many cases", he said.

"In some countries of this region, this problem has assumed a more violent form", Muhith added.