In view of the realization of the country's progress without any manpower, and the real needs of the country and abroad, the government has taken several effective steps to achieve the overall development of technical education and is continuing to take care of it. As a part of it, under the Ministry of Education, technical and madrasa education Or with the help of Department of Technical Education under the Department The project titled "Skills and Training Enhancement Project (STEP)." The project has been extended for the next three (3) years (July 2016 - June, 2019) with the completion of the project for the first six years (July 2010 - June 2016). The Bangladesh government, World Bank and Canada are jointly funding the project. The development partners have allocated a total of 1782 crores for continuing to improve the education. The initial estimated cost of Rs 849 crore due to the satisfactory progress of the project implementation, development agencies have also allocated an additional Rs 933 crore.
The main purpose of the STEP project is to improve poverty and unemployment through the development and expansion of technical education and training to make socio-economic education available to socio-economically backward students and create employment opportunities and increase their poverty....