DHAKA, July 30, 2024 (BSS) - The Real Estate and Housing Association of 
Bangladesh (REHAB) has signed an agreement with the Skills for Industry and 
Competitiveness and Innovation Programme under the Ministry of Finance to 
groom some 10,000 higher skilled workers afresh in the real estate sector.

REHAB President Md Wahiduzzaman and Executive Project Director (additional 
secretary) of Skills for Industry and Competitiveness and Innovation 
Programme Mohammad Walid Hossain signed the agreement on behalf of their 
respective sides at the Probashi Kallyan Bhaban in the capital today.

REHAB senior vice-president Liakat Ali Bhuiyan, vice-president Engineer Abdul 
Latif, vice-president (finance) Abdur Razzak and SIP-REHAB Project Chief 
Coordinator Kazi Abul Kashem were present, among others, on the occasion, 
said a press release.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohammad Walid Hossain said REHAB had earlier 
imparted training to some 21,000 trainees with efficiency while the standard 
of their training was satisfactory. "The participation of female trainees was 
very much encouraging. Hopefully, REHAB will play a significant role in 
imparting higher training in the real estate sector in future," he added.

Md Wahiduzzaman said the association has so far imparted standard higher 
training to some 21,000 workers in the real estate sector while around 90 
percent of them are being employed in various real estate and developer 
companies of the country and abroad and thus playing an important role to the 
country's economy.

According to the release, the training will be imparted to the trainees free 
of cost while each trainee will be given stipend. The higher training will be 
given mainly in four areas namely electrical installation and maintenance, 
plumbing and pipe fittings, machinery and steel binding, tiles and marble 
works.
 
The period of the training will be four months while the trainees would have 
scope for getting jobs abroad.