Dhaka, Aug. 10 -- Labour and Employment Adviser Brigadier General (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain has said that while the term "employment" exists in the title of the Labour and Employment Ministry, and there has been no real initiative in that area.

"In the Labour and Employment Ministry, the word 'employment' exists only on paper-there is no actual work being done on it," he said while speaking at a seminar titled '365 Days of the Interim Government', organised by Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Recounting his own experience, the adviser said, "When I tried to work on employment generation after taking office, I came face to face with the harsh reality of bureaucratic complications. Efforts to make the ministry's employment-related act...