Aiming to expand the e-commerce business in Bangladesh and generate more employment opportunities by creating new entrepreneurs in the ecommerce sector, a project titled “I will do e-commerce, build my own business” has been taken up by the Ministry of Commerce, said Finance MInister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech on Thursday.
He said the objective of this project is to develop the skills of new entrepreneurs in e-commerce and create small and medium entrepreneurs in e-commerce in the rural economy of the country.
Under this initiative, e-commerce training will be provided to 5,000 new entrepreneurs. Around 3,500 entrepreneurs have already been trained, Minister added.
He said in addition, steps have been taken under the Bangladesh Regional Connectivity Project to empower women, through which training is being imparted to women entrepreneurs on cut-flower, agro-processing and ICT skills.