DHAKA, Jan 26, 2020 (BSS) – State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud
Chowdhury today said business and commerce are the key indicators for the
development in the era of globalisation.
He was addressing as the chief guest a discussion on `International Customs
Day’ at a community centre in Rangpur city, said a press release here.
The state minister underscored the need for further simplifying the
customs management to flourish business and commerce and ease the revenue
collection as customs plays an important role in expanding trade and
business.
Chaired by Commissioner of Rangpur Customs, Excise and VAT
Commissionerate, Showkat Ali Saadi, the function was addressed, among others,
by Rangpur City Corporation Mayor Mustafizur Rahman Mustafa, Director General
(North-West Region) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Brigadier General Md
Kaiser Hasan Malik, Commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan Police Mohammad
Abdul Alim Mahmud, President of Rangpur Chamber Of Commerce and Industry
Mostofa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu and Rangpur Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
and Industry President Md Rezaul Islam Milon.
Mentioning that said customs also had vast contributions to socio-economic
development of the country, Khalid said, “We have to increase our own
resources for expanding the area of customs to reach the expected goal of
economic uplift and progress in other sectors.