Govt commits to ensure business friendly atmosphere: Humayun, The current administration is committed to ensuring business-friendly environments as it works to increase employment opportunities through industrialization, according to Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, MP. He urged business owners to invest more in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as opposed to heavy industries because SMEs employ more people on average.
Govt commits to ensure business friendly atmosphere: Humayun
The minister made the observation while exchanging views with businessmen, political leaders and other stakeholders related to ensuring business-the friendly atmosphere at the circuit house conference hall here today as the chief guest. Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Chairman of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Mahbubor Rahman, Commissioner of Rajshahi division GSM Zafarullah, Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Abu Kalam Siddique and Chairman of Oikya Foundation Shaheen Akhter Rainy addressed the meeting as special guests with Deputy Commissioner Abdul Jalil in the chair.
BSCIC Regional Director Rezaul Alam Sarker welcomed the participants. Minister Nurul Majid Humayun said the government has created areas of confidence in terms of investment and called for more investment in the potential sectors, particularly tourism, silk, agro-processing and farm machinery, in the region.
He opined that industrialization is very important for generating employment opportunities coupled with bolstering local and regional economies and attaining sustainable development goals. “We are working relentlessly to encourage more investment through mitigating the existing problems being faced by the entrepreneurs,” he added.
He categorically said no more industries will remain nonfunctional or sold-out because the government is determined to make all the dysfunctional industries operational for the sake of creating more employment scopes, including for women for their empowerment. He mentioned that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been giving painstaking efforts to this end.
In order to speed up the production of finished leather goods, the government has chosen to establish a sophisticated leather processing company on 124 acres of land in the Belpukur neighborhood of Rajshahi, according to Nurul Majid Humayun. Mayor Liton advocated for creating job chances for the large number of young people who are unemployed by promoting the business sector in his speech.
Many of the present entrepreneurs and business executives who took part in the open conversation unmistakably emphasized the necessity of resolving their current issues to expedite their efforts to create jobs. Later, the minister paid a visit to the BSCIC industrial facilities and spoke with the relevant parties.
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