Bhutan may be able to develop a sustainable training system on its own to train practising civil engineers and technicians in the next five years. This is because the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry along with the Finance Ministry signed a Record of Discussion with the Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA today, aimed at achieving the goal. The five-year project, a first of its kind aims to train such professionals for the growth of the construction sector in Bhutan.
The official agreement for the project titled ‘Establishment of Human Resource Development System in Construction Sector’ was signed at the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry this morning.
Through the project, Japanese and Bhutanese experts will form a core team to equip the trainers from different agencies and institutes in the country. They will be trained in earthwork, concrete work, steelwork, and quality and safety standards among others.
Those trainers will then train practising engineers and technicians.
“Through this project, we are going to have a group of experts from Japan and our ministry. These experts will train the trainers. The whole objective is that we will continuously train the practising engineers and technicians. They will be trained in all the different skills. We hope that even after five years, this system of the establishment of capacity building will continue and be developed sustainably,” said Tenzin, the Director General of the Department of Surface Transport, MoIT.
He added that the engineers trained through the project will be given an extra point which would help the contractors score better points when bidding for construction works.
Deki Lhazom
Edited by Kipchu
