http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/07/10/72542.html
Turkey-Bangla chamber keen to re-open Rajshahi Textile Mills
RAJSHAHI, July 9 (BSS): Turkey-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TBCCI) showed interest in reopening the Rajshahi Textile Mills, which remained non-functional for the last couple of years.
The interest was shown when a TBCCI delegation called on Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton at the latter’s office Wednesday.
The delegation members during the discussion expressed their keen interest in further development of trade and business relations between Bangladesh and Turkey and establishment of educational institutions and hospitals in Rajshahi city.
The region has enormous prospect of establishing industries and it only needs entrepreneurs to make the sector flourish , they held.
There is a large demand of garments and different other fancy products especially handicrafts and silk items in the Turkish markets and the region can earn a huge amount of foreign currency through exporting the items, they mentioned.
Due importance should be given to encourage the entrepreneurs to invest in the region by providing them with all sorts of necessary facilities to attain the goal, the delegation said.
The RCC mayor urged the local and foreign entrepreneurs to invest in the region as it had requisite facilities including sound law and order and road, rail and air communication and low labour and management cost.
He assured the interested investors of all cooperation.
He said a garment industry was going to start here for the first time creating job opportunities.
Training programme was also being conducted here for creating skilled manpower.
Besides, gas supply in the region through pipeline would begin immediately and the process for establishing a 125-megawatt power generation plant was underway to promote the industrial sector, he said.
He expressed the hope that the region would become a viable place for any medium and big industries in near future.
“We are committed to making the region economically solvent through encouraging the industrial sector”, he added.
TBCCI president Fikret Cicek and member Murad Karka, Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) president Abu Bakkar Ali and its member Imtiaz Ahmed Shamsul Huda Kislu attended the meeting.
Later, the TBCCI delegation held a bilateral discussion with RCCI in its conference hall to devise ways and means to make the industrial sector in the region flourish.
