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President emphasises labour-intensive industries to create jobs

UNS, Dhaka
President Zillur Rahman yesterday emphasised establishing labour-intensive industries with a view to creating employments for a huge number of job-seeking skilled people.
He noted that Bangladesh is one of the labour-surplus countries of the world. So, there is no alternative to establishing new industries in the country for creating jobs for the huge army of skilled population.
“The issue of establishing labour-intensive industries will have to be deeply considered in lieu of our capital- intensive industries," he told business leaders when a 17-memebr delegation of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) met the President at Bangabhaban.
During the meeting, President Zillur Rahman urged the business community and entrepreneurs to come forward to help keep the prices of essentials within the purchasing capacity of common men in Ramadan.
He said the business community needs to perform social responsibility by shrugging off sheer commercial mentality.
“You have to play a significant role along with the government in
ensuring basic needs and socioeconomic development for the less-fortunate section of the population," said the President.
He mentioned that the government has already taken steps aimed at establishing special economic zones and industrial parks for building prospective industries like IT, RMG, textiles, shipbuilding, food-processing, pharmaceuticals, leather, chemicals, toys, jewelleries and furniture.
Besides, the government is also
encouraging expansion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for further strengthening the industrialisation process as well as for creating employment in rural areas.
“1 urge you all to build industries in these promising sectors." the President said in his call for the entrepreneurs from home and abroad.
Saying that investment is the engine of economic dynamism, he also urged the local entrepreneurs
and the expatriates to invest in the country's productive and competitive sectors.
Rahman said the money of expatriates, which lies idle, needs to be invested in the industrial sector as soon as possible and underlined the need for utilising the human resources properly for smooth industrialisation.
Referring to the government's 'Vision-2021' which envisages increasing the industrial sector's contribution to the GDP up to 40
percent and rale of labour force to 25 percent from 16 percent, the President observed that the industrial chamber, BCI, could play an important role in this regard.
Among the members of the delegation, BCI President Shahedul Islam Helal, Senior Vice President Major General (retd) S M Shahbuddin, Vice President Delwar Hossain Raja, Directors Pritee Chakarbarti, Jahangir Alam and S M ALam Mukul spoke on the occasion.
Helal said mass awareness needs to be created about using Bangladeshi products instead of foreign goods in the interest of flourishing the local industries.
He apprised the President that BCI had launched an awareness campaign in this regard with the slogan My Product, My Country'.
The delegation also apprised the President of different activities of the chamber of industries and sought his cooperation in solving electricity problems and ensuring law and order in the industrial areas.
Secretary of the President's Office Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Military Secretary to the President Major Genera) Md Ehtesham UI Haque and President's Press Secretary Abdul Awal Howlader were present during the meeting.