“The Special Economic Zones are changing the industrial landscape of Bangladesh and to raise the contribution of the SMEs to the GDP, and the government mulls to establish a separate SME zone in Bangabandhu Shilpanagar in Mirsarai”, said Paban Chowdhury, Executive Chairman, BEZA s.
He was addressing a webinar titled ‘Enabling Investment Climate to Realize Great Potential’ hosted by Citibank N.A. Bangladesh recently in partnership with Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) & Bangladesh Center of Excellence (BCE).
Speakers mainly focused the diversification of investment, readiness of economic zones to facilitate such diversification and determining potential sectors for investment while addressing the webinar.
Paban Chowdhury, Executive Chairman, BEZA joined the session as Chief Guest and panelist while the session was chaired by Mahbubul Alam, President, CCCI and moderated by N. Rajashekaran (Shekar), Citi Country Officer and Managing Director, Citibank, N.A. Bangladesh, Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, Chairman & CEO, Pran-RFL Group, Aameir Alihussain, Managing Director, BSRM Group of Companies and Miran Ali, Managing Director, Bitopi Group were among the distinguished panelists at the virtual discussion. Mahbubul Alam, President, CCCI praised the efforts of the government in developing economic zones across the country and emphasized especially on the importance of guiding the investors in choosing the appropriate sector for investment so that investment doesn’t get concentrated in limited number of sectors.
