To survey & inspect overall Textile Industry as and when required by the Government.


The textile industry has been playing an important role in the economic development of Bangladesh. It is the largest labour intensive manufacturing sector of the country, which employs more than 4 million people (including garments) of which a large number of women are working in this sector. As a result this sector help in elevation of poverty. This sub-sector accounts for 77% of the foreign exchange earnings. In addition of meeting the domestic demand for textile products, the primary textile industry can now meet more than 80% of the knit fabrics and 25% of the woven fabrics required for the export-oriented Readymade Garment (RMG) industry of the country. As a result the country suffers from inadequate supply of woven fabrics required for export-oriented RMG industry. The facilities (quota) those were enjoyed by Bangladesh under MFA in export of RMG in the overseas market have already been phased out by December, 2004 and the country has exposed to global competition with the textile rich countries, like India, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Indonesia etc. who have competitive advantage in manufacturing of textile products. To lace the quota free environment in the export market the prime necessity of Bangladesh is to develop the backward linkage facilities (spinning, weaving, knitting and dyeing-finishing) to ensure local supply of quality fabrics to meet the growing demand of export-oriented RMG industry as well as domestic market. To meet the fast growing demand for textile products in the domestic and export market, large number of textiles and RMG industries have already been set-up and new industries are also being set-up with state- of- the- art technology. The prime objective of the textiles sub-sector is to make the textile products competitive in the domestic and export markets in terms of prices through increasing productivity and quality of products. Demand of skilled manpower is increasing day by day in the country with the enormous growth of textile sub sectors. For successful operation of these enterprises there is need for more graduate textile technologists in the country. At present there is a few number of Textile Engineering College offering bachelor degree in textile engineering in the country, which is very insufficient to meet the present growing demand of graduate textile engineers. Under the circumstances remarkable number of textile engineers from neighboring countries are coming for working in the textile field. In the quota free world, trading situation demands quality products and timely movement of goods at reasonable price. These are the prime factors, which should be maintained to operate trading with competition. During manufacturing, the factories need-qualified technologists in order to maintain quality. This requirement is unconditional and there is no alternative to qualified technologists i.e. graduate textile technologists. But there is a huge shortage of these technologists in the country. As per the survey of October 2000 the requirement vis -a- vis demand-gap of Textile Technologists/ Technicians by 2010 under different levels are shown below :

Category of Technologists / Technicians	Requirement by 2010	Supply by 2010 from the existing capacity	Demand-gap by 2010
Ph. D	169	_	169
M. Sc/ PGD	657	_	657
B. Sc	13, 530	20,25	11,505
Diploma	17,134	3240	13,894
S.S.C Vocational	23,642	10,080	13,562
Total	55,132	15,345	39,787

As a matter of fact the demand-gap aspect of the Technologists will never be static, rather it will increase or decrease over the years depending upon the situational changes in the demand - Supply trend and Technological sophistication . The demand of the Textile Technologists will be increased over the next few years, in all sectors of Textile manufacturing, education & training and in trade and business.

Department of Textile is governing education in textile: at three levels: (1) BSc. in Textile Engineering, (2) Diploma in Textile Engineering & (3) SSC Vocational in Textile. It is the governing authority of Four Textile Colleges, Six Textile Institutes & Forty Textile Vocational Institutes through out the country. It has Four divisional & Two district offices and one Textile Training Center.

Textile Engineering College:

o Four Textile Engineering Colleges