Kamel Sahnoun, said on the sidelines of his participation in the conference of engineers on development in Zarzis (governorate of Medenine), that 39,000 engineers have left Tunisia over the past six years, an average of 20 engineers per day, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INS), claiming that this emigration constitutes a great loss to the Tunisian state.
The dean of the Order of Tunisian Engineers (ILO), who alludes here to the cost of training this technological elite who go to monetize their talent elsewhere, estimates that the training of each engineer costs the State 100,000 dinars.
The issue of limiting the emigration of engineers was recently discussed by the Head of State during a ministerial council and measures should be taken in this regard, stressed the dean of Tunisian engineers, noting the importance to respond to requests from engineers concerning the precariousness of their professional conditions and other difficulties of various kinds that they encounter in the exercise of their profession.
He added in a statement to the Tap agency that previous governments had failed to deliver on the promises they made to engineers, forming hopes that the current government will implement its commitments to solve the problems of the sector. , especially since the most important aspect, beyond the material issues, is the improvement of the regulatory framework and the cessation of certain practices of Tunisian companies in the public sector with regard to engineers, in addition to the situation engineers in the private sector, who suffer from job insecurity and other difficulties.
