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Japan- Bangladesh Security Printing starts its function
BUSINESS REPORTER
Japan- Bangladesh Security Printing and Papers Ltd has started its functioning to produce bank cheque, demand draft, pay-order, share certificate, certificates and mark sheets of educational institutions and other sorts of security printing materials with utmost care and safety.
Japan-Bangladesh Group Chairman Salim Prodan disclosed it a press briefing at a local hotel in the city. Tk 130 crore has been invested in this project. Another some Tk 780 crore will be inveted within the year of 2012. It creates another job opportunities of 70 thousand people, he added. There are nearly 8 hundred employees in this factory who engage into work on the shift basis at Rupganj factory in Narayanganj, he said.
Replying to a query he said 30 percent of total investment of this factory belongs to Japanese and rest 51 percent belongs to local entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurs are interested to invest in this country as the pays and related materials are cheaper in Bangladesh that that of Japan, he added.
The workers and employees are receiving training first and later engage themselves into the factory. As a result the efficiency of the workers are excellent one. Group’s Vice-Chairman Masamichi Taniguchi said his security printing factory is eager to install a training centre in Bangladesh.
It is essential to increase the number of trained manpower in this sector as the number of skilled manpower in this sector are decreasing, he added.
