The development of RMG industries in Bangladesh is a phenomenon. Throughout the last few decades we have been successful in earning foreign currencies in this sector in a positive rate. But few things are still really shocking to know that we are still in the same place in terms of new product development, innovation, technology and many more. The only thing we are strong in, is availability of cheap labour. But switching to value added products and development of other more profitable textile industries other than the labour based RMG sector is not possible here.
Many educational and training institutions have been evolved in developing the textile and RMG education. But the trend here is also the same. In Bangladesh we mainly focus on just the overview of the whole thing. the specialization is not going to impact the industry at all. Specially we are not still well equipped in machinery and technology. The educational institutes like universities and other textile training institutes have been just increased in numbers but none of them offers specialization in machinery and technology part.
As a result we are not getting benefits as we expect, because a great extent of earned foreign currency is drained to nurture a huge number of foreign experts related to this industry. This is really high time to rethink about our prestigious sector. The educational institutions especially the universities that offer textile education need to rethink about the course curriculum that offers more depth knowledge on machinery and technology.
