Govt to set up industrial town in Mirsarai, industrial park at Sirajganj; over 1 lakh people to get job opportunity

By AKM Moinuddin

Dhaka, Sept 18 (UNB) – The government in a bid to generate employment and provide infrastructural support to private entrepreneurs in small and cottage industry sector has planned to set up an industrial town in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong district.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has recently approved the project titled `Mirsharai Shilpanagari, Chittagong,’ sources at the Industries Ministry said.
“The project site has already been selected…it’s just close to Mirsarai railway station,” Industries Minister Dilip Barua said.
The project will be implemented on 25 acres of land by 2012 at a cost of Tk 22.96 crore, he informed.
According to the project profile, the industrial town will have a total of 186 industrial plots where 125 small and medium industries would be set up.
Industries Minister Dilip Barua hoped that some 6,000 people would be directly employed once the project is implemented, apart from indirect involvement of many people.
Besides, the government has also decided to set up an industrial park - ‘BSIC Industrial Park’ - in Sirajganj with a view to reviving rural economy through industrialization.
The project, which will be implemented on 400 acres of land at Saidabad and Kalia Haripur in Sirajganj Sadar Upazia, has also got approval from the ECNEC, the Minister said.
The project is expected to be implemented by June 2014 at a cost of Tk 384 crore and it will have 801 industrial plots.
A total of 570 export-oriented, import-substitute and domestic mills and factories will be set up on the industrial park, officials said.
Some 100,000 people will get job opportunity if the project is implemented timely and it will help boost domestic and foreign investment.
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