Chevron-funded Uttoron advanced welding lab was inaugurated in Khulna Shipyard.

According to Chevron Bangladesh, the Uttoron , a skill for better life project, recently organized the inauguration ceremony, as part of its agreement signed with Khulna Shipyard in 2021 to launch advanced welding training and an advanced welding lab for the first time in Bangladesh.

The new advanced welding lab will support young people in enhancing their welding abilities.

Due to a lack of advanced-level training facilities, there is a shortage of skilled welders in Bangladesh. In the ongoing mega projects, welders are hired from abroad at much higher salaries.

As a result, Bangladeshi youth are losing job opportunities in such projects. To solve this problem, in collaboration with Khulna Shipyard, Uttoron initiated the construction of an advanced welding lab, said a press release.

Zamira Kanapyanova, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Eurasia and Europe, of Chevron, Eric M. Walker, President and Managing Director, Chevron Bangladesh and Commodore M Shamsul Aziz, Managing Director, Khulna Shipyard Limited, Bangladesh Navy, Chevron Bangladesh's Corporate Affairs director Muhammad Imrul Kabir, Country Director of Swisscontact Bangladesh Mujibul Hasan, and Team Leader of Uttoron Nadia Afrin Shams were present in the event.

Uttoron project, funded by Chevron and implemented by Swisscontact, was initiated in 2016. By 2022, a total of 3380 young people received technical training in Sylhet and Dhaka.

Besides, Uttoron established and upgraded the Bholananda Uttoron Technical Training Centre in partnership with Sylhet City Corporation.