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Plan to lease out unused state lands hits roadblock

Star Business Report
The Privatisation Commission's proposal to lease out unused lands under state enterprises to private investors has run into a setback due to lack of responses from ministries.
A panel was tasked in March with working out the lease plan. It asked the ministries -- industries, commerce, and jute and textiles -- in July to provide information on the excess lands under the enterprises within 15 days, but they did not get back.
The panel then sent out letters
twice to the ministries requesting for information -- and still there was no response.
"At last we phoned these ministries reminding them of our request for information. As of now we are yet to receive the information," Mirza Abdul Jalil, the commission's chairman and a member of the panel, said after a meeting on Sunday.
Prime Minister's Economic Affairs Adviser Mashiur Rahman, also head of the panel, presided over the meeting which had representatives from industries, jute and textiles and commerce ministries in
attendance.
"It seems they are trying to say they do not have the information. But you would expect the ministries to have the records of state mills. If they tried properly they could. But 1 am still hopeful," Jalil said.
Jalil said the committee would no longer be held back by the ministries' inability to provide the necessaryinformation.
"We will proceed with whatever information we have in hand and prepare a guideline accordingly," he said. The commission has drafted rules to lease out the SoEs and its lands to private investors for a maximum of 35 years.
In 2011, the commission conducted a survey on the 39 SoEs and found these entities to have 1,288 acres unused.
By one estimate, around 257 industrial units, mainly mills, could be established on those lands.
Of the 39 SoEs, six were found in full operation, nine in partial operation and the rest closed.
In March, the cabinet committee on economic affairs formed an 11 -member committee asking the team to submit a report on unused public lands under the different SoEs and their commercial enterprises.
The committee decided to determine surplus lands of SoEs in Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna initially and give priority to lands on closed mills.
"It is very important for industrialisation, economic growth and employment creation," said Jalil, explaining the rationale behind the committee’s decision.
Asked whether the commission has failed to convince ministries in its bid to privatise and lease out lands, he said: “They | ministries! do not want to be encouraged.”