National human resource planning in Bangladesh: An analysis from development perspective

Human Resource Planning (HRP) first evolved in private sector to ensure efficiency, economy and effectiveness for profit maximization. But in the public sector, it is quite different due to the wider role and responsibilities of the government. The present paper makes an attempt to examine the state of human resource planning in Bangladesh and explore the pattern of relationship among birth, education, employment, and rehabilitation of the population in society. The issue of human resource planning remains un-emphasized in the population policy papers. In the Five-Year Development Plans Bangladesh expresses its repeated emphasis on human resource development and commits to ensure education for all and concentrates on job-centered and technical education but without any human resource planning framework. Its reflection is found, in accelerated growth of higher education devoid of productive employment, massive unemployment including educated youth and in rural urban as well as overseas migration and vulnerability of elderly people. The study reveals a paradoxical relationship among birth, education, employment and re-assimilation of population in Bangladesh and the cycle of events constituted by them is seriously disrupted that appear as the most potential threats to development.