2020-2021 Entrance notice for the Marine Academy system

Marine Academy Chottogram, Marine Academy Pabna, Marine Academy Barisal, Marine Academy Rangpur, Marine Academy Sylhet, Marine Fisheries Academy Chottogram, International Maritime Academy Dhaka, Mas Marine Academy Chottogram, Ocean Maritime Academy Chottogram, Western Maritime Academy Dhaka, International Maritime Academy Dhaka

Some comments about multiple Marine Academies in Bangladesh

Dear Brothers,

   AWRB. After reading through all the correspondence, I couldn’t resist myself to be silent. I exploited by my family members and wasted 3 years in the scrap yard due to ignorance and misguidance by a very well reputed ex-Master. Finally I was rescued by a gentleman who wasn’t a seafarer but had respect for our profession. 

From my personal experience and observations over the years, I have noticed that most of the cases our fellow seafarers are being exploited by our fellow Mariners, whether they are ex-Master or ex-Chief Engineers. Similarly big shipping companies went down due to irresponsible and unethical behaviour by our professionals, such individuals aren’t not only restricted to our nationality, even it’s common to other nationalities. 

However, having said that unfortunately some of us can’t control our greeds for money or our high ambitions for social status or personal identity crisis which enforces us to becomes the subservient of corrupted system. 

Not withstanding with any political parties, my personal views are that whole nation is seriously suffering from lack of good administration and leadership, the entire system deeply infested with immorality, corruption, inefficiency, indiscipline and specially lack true patriotism.

 It’s like the whole nation belongs to a person and his family rather than the person and his family belongs to the nation!! It’s a shame, each and every organisation has to be named after him or his family members? Even some politicians dare to associate him close to Prophet? 

Unfortunately most of us don’t care about and majority of us believes in self survival but don’t realise that it’s meaningless to survive in the society where is no humanity, respect and love for each other. 

Wassaalam 

Capt. Razzak A. Syed

Sent from my iPhone

On 25 Aug 2019, at 18:15, Hanif Dewan <dewan31@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Sir,

Assalamualaikum. It’s really shocking news for us if the authority of BMA has decided to change its name to “Marine Academy, Chittagong”! So far I can remember and as written in my all old documents, the name of our academy was ” Marine Academy, Chittagong” in 1995-1996. I really don’t understand why there are so much politics with our beloved academy!!!

In trailing mails, I have been observing lots of frustrations among the junior Mariners in Bangladesh for their severe ongoing job crisis since 2012/2013. In that time, I have just switched over my profession as a maritime educator and started working at Cambridge Maritime College. Due to my position as vice principal of CMC, the owner of the college, often shared many confidential matters of DG shipping and former shipping minister. I knew from him, how 18 private academies got the permission from the DOS and shipping ministry to open and run their institutions. In order to make money, they always tried to take intake as many students as they could! More students, more business, more money – policy was there only! As many of senior mariners were directly or indirectly involved with these private institutions, nobody raised the voice of immature decisions of produce more and more and flood with markets with thousand of fresh cadets. Not in Bangladesh only same thing happened in India and Philippines! In 2010 -2012, many maritime magazines and journals published such types of news that internation shipping is facing severe trained manpower crisis and globally there was a shortage of seafarers according to the demand. Therefore many businessmen had tried to get some benefits by opening maritime training institutes and due to international demand with reliable data from IMO side, the administrations of party countries gave the permission to open new institutions. But globally  nobody was in control to limit the number of cadets according to the demands of placements and the impact is surplus fresh cadets in above mentioned countries. By observing the situations in Bangladesh in those days, I could easily guess the dark situation of cadets’ job market and I was always advising the the owner of CMC, to work seriously for managing placement for cadets if he liked to continue the business. Personally I tried to connect the CMC with the Piri Reis University, Turkey who has a wonderful maritime training program with European Shipowners. But due to less business interest, CMC owner didn’t want it. He was not so serious for managing the cadet’s placement but more interested in earning money from the innocent boys. All the owners of the maritime institutions had the same mentality, in fact! I had warned the CMC owner many times but he didn’t listen to me. Finally, I left the college and joined onboard ship in March 2013 as there was no future.

In that time, I saw there was a competition between the academies to take new students. Colorful advertisements with promising of bright future, 100% job placement guarantee, marine engineering degree etc. attracted the young guys to be a mariner and earning handsome money by exploring world in marine profession!

As the administration was getting the benefits, nobody cared about it. They suddenly took decision without studying the job markets, without analyzing the shipping business around the world. They often said, the previous administration made mistake not to increase the seafarers of Bangladesh. He often proudly said, he has done a great job, by increasing the maritime academy and numbers of cadets in both private and government academies! His great step will help to increase Bangladeshi seafarers and earn a lot of foreign currency by them! That time, our maritime leaders (neither from Alumni of BMA nor BMFA), Commandant of BMA and CNS & CES of DOS could make him understood the worst scenario of terrible job crisis of cadets and junior officers, perhaps, but they have just closed eyes and supported him by keeping them silent! Or, they might try but the administration and ministry didn’t listen to them due to their wrong conception of increasing seafarer numbers overnight!

Recently the A.P.Mollar (Mearsk Line) has cancelled all their job agreements with more than 600 cadets, junior officers of India and Philippines! They have reduced the number of seafarers from their vessels. Same is doing by many European and far eastern companies. Please read international shipping news for more references.

I think, it is very much clear to everybody now. Still we have time to balance the production of fresh cadets with the demand of their jobs in national and international shipping. Hope, our maritime leaders will raise their voice, the Commandant of BMA, BMFA and DOS personnel will discuss the issue with the DG and shipping ministry soon.

Thanks and best regards.

Hanif Dewan (31E, BMA)

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 02:04 ‘Md.Hasan Ifteklhar’ via BD Mariners <bdmariners@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Dear All,

Assalamualaikum,

I am extrememly curious to know how such a suicidal decision to increase Martime Institiutes were finalized? 

UTTERLY ABSURD when our beloved  juniors are suffering immensely in the job market! 

There are calls even from the parents with distressed voice begging for a job for his son. IT PAINS A LOT to hear such begging/such voice!  

Yet institutions are going to be on the rise! We should not be protesting against more institutes if it is logical!

If at all more seaferers were to be produced, existing Marine Academy would have been unitlized for that purpose. 

Why not our concerend ministry/Department of shipping concentrate heavily on sustained basis  to resolve  seafarer’s immigation issue? A lot  more pressing need than  that of increasing Maritime institutes, undoubtedly! 

Few weeks earlier, I got a shock learning that Bangladeshi Seafarers cannot sign off easily even in Malaysia! What a joke!  

Kindly correct me if I am wrong. 

Separately, decision to change the name of our beloved Academy, if materialized,  will be  another SHOCKWAVE we have to endure   apart from shockwaves generated out of  INSENSIBLE and ILLOGICAL decision to increase Maritime Institutions unless concerend authorities can publish details of their logical studies on necessity to increase Maritime Institute in our country with plans to mitigate plight of  juniors in the event they cannot secure any job jeopardizing their careers/futures.

Let COMMON SENSE and LOGIC  prevail so that we say YES to logical thoughts and processes and vice versa! 

Brgds

Iftekhar(24N)

On Saturday, 24 August 2019, 08:41:27 pm GMT+8, Quamrul Siraz <q.siraz@gmail.com> wrote:

There’s not enough jobs for cadets Bangladesh is currently producing. In this situation, creating more marine academies does not make sense. In the future job openings for seafarers will shrink rapidly due to autonomous vessels – we are looking at 15 years at the best. This will be an exciting moment for next generation job seekers if we can train them in good time to capture those emerging job sectors – e.g. robotics, artificial intelligence etc. Automation and AI is the future. Most of the mainstream jobs as we see today will not exist. We are still sleeping and unable to appreciate how quickly things will change.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Quamrul 27N

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On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 14:09, Ghulam Suhrawardi <gms@nmcigroup.com> wrote:

To all:

I am extremely surprised about the decision making process in Bangladesh.

Looks like everything goes “top-down”. Orders come from the rulers and must be obeyed by the subjects.

In an undemocratic state, we cannot expect a peoples hearing of some substance regarding a public decision.

Or say, a matter that effects the public.

After all, the country belongs to the Bangladeshis and not by the rulers. If that is true, then we all have a say. All these academies

were made despite the lull in business. Also these were made by the lobbying of the (unelected) MPs and/or government officials, money makers or the cronies.

Chandpur is crucial inland port. Why do they not have a marine academy there too? Perhaps the people there were sleeping.

Bangladesh is geographically a small country with homogeneous population. And yet; we act provincial.

We versus them. There is no united voice in anything. Even amongst the seafarers. When in power, they stole the shipping industry.

They ate it all and lived happily ever after.

Crying over the spilt milk is not going to mend the deep problem we Bangladeshis have. It is a national disease.

We all are responsible for the screw up of our nation. Just stand by and watch. Or sit on the fence, waiting for your chance to loot.

Regards

Ghulam Suhrawardi (6N)

From: bdmariners@googlegroups.com [mailto:bdmariners@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tariq Mahmood
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 3:48 AM
To: bdmariners@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [BDMariners] 4 new Govt. Marine Academy in BD from this year.

Thank you Babrul Hasan for eye opening write up which unfortunately, nobody seems to be concerned about. We all are very busy with our own personal agendas to pay any attention to what is happening around us. 

Bangladesh Marine Academy, once a pride of the country and a legacy that is still unique and a top notch educational and training institutions in whole of Asia, will now be known as Chittagong Marine Academy and will be in the same status as Fishery Academy and Barishal Marine Academy or other numerous marine academies that is being opened up for commercial purposes.  The advertisement is the evidence. 

This is a burning example of “how to destroy a monumental institution and kill the pride of a nation without firing a single gun shot”.  Shame on us and shame on the people who have made it possible for their personal gains. 

Bangladesh Marine Academy will always live in my heart and in my mind till I die. 

Tariq Mahmood / 7E

On Fri, 23 Aug, 2019 at 11:18 PM, ‘rafiqul islam’ via BD Mariners <bdmariners@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Should write lot of more

On Friday, August 23, 2019, 12:15:09 PM EDT, Babrul Hasan Ratul <ratul3880@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Sir,

Assalamualaikum & Good day!

I will be highly honoured if you please allow my following passage to post in our BD mariners google group.

Thank you sir,

Best Regards,

Babrul Hasan, 49/E

  আমি লজ্জিত।

আমি এমন এক কমিউনিটির অংশ যেটার মেনেজমেন্ট লেভেলে যারা আছেন তারা মাস শেষে বেতন, আর ৯ টা ৫ টা ডিউটি ছাড়া বলার মত কিছু সরকারি চেয়ারে বসে করতে পারেন নাই।

আমাদের দেশ বিদেশে নামি দামি কোর্স করা ক্যাপ্টেন, চিফ ইঞ্জিনিয়ার আছেন, আরো আছেন একমাত্র সরকারি একাডেমির কমান্ডেন্ট, আইএমওর এম্বোসেডর, আছেন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের কর্তৃপক্ষ। 

কিন্তু যা নাই তা হলো সত্যিকারের অর্থে একজন লিডার যার হাত ধরে এই চলমান ধসময় সেক্টর আবার প্রান ফিরে পেত।

যাদের উপর ভরসা করেছিলাম তারা নিজেদের স্বার্থে মন্ত্রনালয় এর ইচ্ছের প্রতিবাদ করতে পারেন নাই। নিজের চেয়ার এর মেয়াদ বাড়ানোর জন্য তারা সব কিছু হ্যা সূচক বাক্য বলে গিয়েছেন।  তা না হলে কিভাবে এই অবস্তায় ৪ টি অতিরিক্ত সরকারি একাডেমি এর প্রস্তাবনা পাস হয়? 

যাক সে কথা বিজনেস ইজ দ্যা কল।

এরকম মেরুদণ্ডহীন কমিউনিটি যেন আল্লাহ কোন যায়গায় না দেন।

এরকম মেরুদন্ডহীন সিনিয়র মেরিনার যারা সরকারি চেয়ারে বসে আছেন, আপনাদের জায়গায় অন্য কাউকে বসালে হয়তো এই মেরিনার প্রজন্ম টা বেচে যেতো। আপনারা বেচে থাকুন। আল্লাহ আপনাদের দুনিয়া আরো সমৃদ্ধ করুক। 

বাই দ্যা ওয়ে,

মেরিন একাডেমি চট্টগ্রাম নামটা বড্ড অচেনা লাগছে। তাইলে বাংলাদেশ মেরিন একাডেমি টা কোথায় অবস্থিত?  

লজ্জা।

অবশ্য এসব বলেও লাভ নাই।

লজ্জা ব্যাপারটা সবার থাকে না।

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কারো মনে কস্ট দিয়ে থাকলে মাফ করবেন সার।