Priority areas for Bangladesh: Roadmap to 2041 as Developed Country

Vision 2041, which is a continuation of vision 2021, has been embraced by the government of Bangladesh and aims to carry the country to the path of development Bangabandu dreamed of. The government of Bangladesh has already introduced the 2021-2041 Perspective Plan (PP2041). The key aim of Vision 2041 is to eradicate extreme poverty, achieve the Upper Middle Class by 2030 and the status of a high economic nation by 2041. This study aiming to fi nd out the major priorities area to be developed country by 2041 and achieve vision 2041. This study based on the secondary data of different scholars fi nds some major areas that must be improved as soon as possible. Priorities area are modern power grid, Blue economy, skill development, recognition of free lancing and urban development. Those areas will boost up the country to be developed country with the fi x time frame. Short Communication Priority areas for Bangladesh: Roadmap to 2041 as Developed Country Taha Husain1* and Kamruzzaman2 1Lecturer, Department of Gender and Development Studies, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur -5404, Bangladesh 2Department of Gender and Development Studies, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur -5404, Bangladesh Received: 17 October, 2020 Accepted: 01 December, 2020 Published: 02 December, 2020 *Corresponding authors: Taha Husain, Lecturer, Department of Gender and Development Studies, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur -5404, Bangladesh, E-mail:


Introduction and the background of the study
. A 20-year strategy for earning and achieving the position of a developing nation by 2041 has been drawn up by the government. The programme will be implemented by the government from 2021 to 2041. According to the draft proposal, 8.48 percent of the population is currently severely poor, and is projected to hit zero percent by 2031. Currently, 17.83 percent of middle-income individuals lives in Bangladesh. By 2031, that will decline to 9.9% and below fi ve percentages by 2041 [2].
The 20-year strategy, however, set the goal of achieving 9.9% growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by ensuring investment to 46.88% of GDP by 2041 and rising tax collection to 21.85% of GDP [3]. To be established by 2041 Bangladesh well incorporated SDG Agenda 2030 into the National Development Plan at an initial point. Since the SDG phase coincided with the beginning period of the 7th Five-Year Plan. The implementation period of the 7th plan is about to end by June 2020 and the current 8th plan will commence in July 2020 [1]. The 8th plan will carry on the 2021-2041 second perspective plan. The 2021-2041 perspective plan arrives at a time when Bangladesh has made substantial economic and social gains. In the 2019 WBDB Survey, Bangladesh currently ranks 176th out of 190 countries in the study (Ahmed, 2019). In 2018, Bangladesh met for the fi rst time all three qualifying requirements for graduation from the UN Least Developed Countries (LDC) list. The economic growth and development performance of Bangladesh over the last two decades has been impressive. The GDP growth rate passed the 8% level in 2018. Over the past three decades, the rise in economic growth in Bangladesh has been less erratic than in many developed countries [4].
As a consequence, Bangladesh is in the process of being a developed country. The economic growth of Bangladesh has been robust over the past decade and the economy expanded Of the 48 LDCs, Bangladesh alone accounts for 19% of GDP, 17.3% of the total population, and 13.6% of exports [8].
In terms of progress in education, health and deprivation over the last 20 years, the 2011 UN Human Development Report places Bangladesh third out of 178 countries [9]. However, the annual exports of Bangladeshi RMG goods had a double-digit growth rate of 11% last year, breaching the four-year single- century. In addition, since its architecture and architecture are not so effective or capable of meeting such power demands with eminence, the Bangladesh power grid presents several challenges. By connecting the existing electric grid to modern communication networks, applications, infrastructure, and electricity generation technologies, the smart grid will operate [19].

Blue economy
There is no question that the future prosperity and economic growth of Bangladesh will be decided by marine issues such as the extension of foreign trade, the use of marine mineral resources for long-term energy stability, proper management of marine fi sh supplies and the preservation of the marine environment and biodiversity [20]. Today, 90 percent of the trade in the country is transported by sea. Sea salt production in Bangladesh has historically been mainly produced in the coastal areas of Cox's Bazar [21]. The average production of such crude salt is approximately 7000-10,000 kg/ha, which some farmers could grow around 20,000 kg/ha/ season in places on the coast [21]. Marine tourism, like other coastal countries in the world, may be one of the main sources of income in Bangladesh. It is estimated that tourism is one of the top fi ve export earners in 150 countries and it is the fi rst source of earnings in 60 countries and is the primary source of foreign exchange for half of the LCD countries [21].

Skill development
Given its signifi cance, the Government of Bangladesh (Gob) has taken into consideration the development of skills strategy as one of the necessary conditions for reaching middle-income profi le by 2030. Despite consistently strong growth rates of over 6% over the last fi ve years and impressive improvement in a variety of indices of human development, Bangladesh is still a long way away from having a skilled workforce [23]. The labour force as a whole has been marginally more educated than the society in general. Overall, 26 percent of the population has received no education, while only some primary education is available to a further 30 percent [24]. Over time, the population of Bangladesh will become even more metropolitan. By 2035, nearly half of all Bangladeshis are projected to live in urban areas. About 60% of the urban population is presently concentrated overwhelmingly in four metropolitan cities: Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, and Rajshahi.
This trend in population migration will become even more pronounced from rural to urban areas by 2030. The population of Dhaka is estimated to double and Chattogram is expected to grow into the next megacity of Bangladesh with a population of 5 to 10 million, driven largely by migration [15].

Conclusion
In recent times, Bangladesh has achieved some remarkable and by 2014 to 690,000 [25]. Information technology was by far the most common training course, accounting in the 12 months before the survey for 42 percent, or nearly 2 million people qualifi ed. Nearly 2 million entities annually received computer training, but only about 144,000 were employed in the information technology (IT) market, and this number does not include those engaged in other sectors of the economy of computing [24]. Agriculture preparation is the second most prevalent fi eld of preparation after computerization, accounting for 10.9 percent of those qualifi ed. With 9 percent of total trainees, or more than 400,000 annually, the ready-madegarment industry is the third most common fi eld of training [24]. This seems to be largely compatible, at least in scope, with the needs of an industry in Bangladesh employing about 4 million people. 63 percent of the trainees in this profession were women, according to the lower end of the fi gures of the percentage of women working by the industry [26].

Free lancing
In Bangladesh, the rate of unemployment graduates is increasing day-by-day. Approximately half of the graduate students come to the employment market each year, but they often not get job opportunities. The youth unemployment rate in 2019 was 11.9% [27]. In Bangladesh, IT freelancing started in a great way and the growth observed in 2012 was around 200 percent. Bangladesh remains with the exception of the Philippines and India as the third country for freelancers [14]. Around 200,000 freelancers now work for various global businesses from their homes in Bangladesh [28]. as BASIS confi rmed [29].

Urban development
Build schemes such as highways and dams have been commonly adopted in developing countries to meet increasing energy and transportation demands coupled with drastic economic development in order to build better public infrastructure [30][31][32][33][34]. The rapid urbanisation of Bangladesh has intensifi ed the social and economic growth of the region, making it one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. However, the pace and scale of these signifi cant gains are restricted by delays in implementing a national urban strategy. Urbanization has been pushing economic growth internationally and is a major contributor to the national economy. Similarly, more than 65% of the national GDP is generated by urban Bangladesh [15].