You do not have much educated folks either.
400,000 skilled personnel from India, Sri Lanka & even countries like Honduras and DPRK work in Bangladesh as Bangladeshi graduates lack skill.
That's not my statement. That's your UGC chairman speaking.
It's a kind of coping mechanism I suppose, he can be seen mocking the supposed "spending habits" of Indians while claiming that Bangladeshis usually consume cup of tea worth 300 taka.
There has been skill shortages as we are growing exponentially so it is expected. We are now closing the gaps fast and universities are producing enough graduates to fill up the roles.
As we are moving from agricultural to manufacturing very fast there is a huge demand for skilled workers, hence we have overseas workers. Slowly their numbers will come down. Our country is growing too fast and its a huge challenge from agriculture based population to learn new skill fast but It is happening.
We are only 50 years old, if you know your history we have been under british rule since 1757 unlike india pakistan and got our Independence only on 1971 after centruries of exploitation by foreign rulers.
From 1971 to 2020 literacy rate went from 24% to 78%. Our focus was general literacy first now we are focusing on higher education, as we have huge shortage of skilled workers with technical skills like in china, vietnam. Resourses are being allocated and soon gaps will be filled to accelerate our growth.
So our situation cant be compaired with India as we first have the industry then we are creating our skill labour, whereas India has skilled labour but not industry thus educated exodus to foreign land. You will also see our majority labour export is unskilled as they are transitioning from agricultural communities.
If only education and skill could have brought prosperity then Srilanka wouldnt have been in the position it is in now. We are not trying to rum before we can walk, like other east asian countries, we want to get to manufacturing.
You will see there are highly educated students in Bangladesh who are struggling, rightly so as there is no industry to employ them as manufacturing industry do not need masters or phd. It needs technical educated people. Thus there is recent exodus of the highly educated students from Bangladesh recently.
Here are some Bangladeshies who want to see Bangladesh follow Indias path to overlook manufacturing and skip to high skill industry but I am personally against it as I believe without proper foundation a building would collaps. But that is my view