Discussion on establishment of assessment centres to produce more assessors in garment industry held

 

A meeting was held at Kanong Hall in the Hlinethaya Industrial Zone of Yangon Region yesterday morning to discuss the establishment of Assessment Centres in the garment industry and the production of more Assessors. The meeting was at­tended by the Chairman of the National Skills Standards Authority (NSSA), Dep­uty Minister for Labour U Win Shein and officials from the Assessment and Certifi­cation Committee (ACC), chairpersons of industrial zones, garment manufacturers and managers, and department officials.

The National Skills Standards Au­thority (NSSA) is focusing on human re­source development and the production of skilled workers, with a target of 5,000 workers to do an assessment in the 2022- 2023FY and the priority will be given to garment factory workers.

According to the business plan, six NSSA awareness seminars were held in the Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory from October 2021 to March 2022, and the skills were assessed for 380 workers in the gar­ment, electrical and brick industries, as well as the Maple Win Garment Factory and Government Technical College (Nay Pyi Taw), were recognized as garment inspection and evaluation department.

From 2014 to date, NSSA has de­veloped more than 650 Inspectors and Assessors in 81 professional positions 200 inspection centres were established and more than 17,500 skilled workers were recognized for 30 occupations.

There are nearly 40 NSSA-certified garment inspection centres in Yangon Region with over 5,300 NSSA-certified skilled workers and only 30 Inspectors and Assessors. The Deputy Minister said that a lot of inspectors need to be trained and NSSA accreditation inspection cen­tres need to be established in proportion to the number of skilled workers. He highlighted that entrepreneurs need to be interested in cooperating in the process of producing skilled workers for the de­velopment of Myanmar’s garment sector.

Afterwards, a representative from the ACC and a representative of the My­anmar Garment Manufacturers Asso­ciation discussed and asked questions, and the Deputy Minister coordinated the necessary matters.

MNA