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DEVELOPMENT-RAJSHAHI (with picture)
Badsha seeks industrialization of Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, June 10, 2018 (BSS)-Fazley Hossain Badsha, a lawmaker and general
secretary of Workers Party of Bangladesh, has said industrialization of
Rajshahi region has become indispensable for its socio-economic development.
He said industrialization is the precondition for generating employment
opportunities and called for flourishing the industrial sector for infusing
dynamism into economic activities.
Badsha was addressing a pre-Iftar meeting with journalists at a city
community center on Saturday.
The lawmaker recommended special incentives for the entrepreneurs who are
interested to set up industries here.
Referring to enormous prospects of setting up of agro-based industries in
the region, the lawmaker said need-based steps should be taken in this regard
as early as possible.
He said setting up economic zones has become the demand of time. Prospect
of agro-processing enterprises is bright in the region as it produces surplus
crops especially food-grains, fruits and vegetables.
He viewed the region has enormous potentials for making agro-processing
enterprises sustainable and profitable as it has been producing varieties of
fruits and vegetables.
Badsha underlined the need for launching direct railway communication
between Rajshahi and Kolkata like Khulna.
He opined that if Rajshahi Airport was upgraded to international standard
various agro-products could be exported to different foreign countries
including the Middle East.
“Immediate step should be taken to full-fledged reopening of the now
partially functioning Rajshahi Silk Factory for the sake of revitalizing the
silk sector,” he said adding two major tourism-enriched cities- Chittagong
and Cox’s Bazar are detached from Rajshahi in terms of direct rail and air
communications.
This odd situation must be removed on an urgent basis. He urged to bring
back the navigability in Padma River through capital dredging and it would be
the turning point of Rajshahi’s development.
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