BD can manufacture mobile phone spare parts: BUET Professor

Bangladesh can save a large amount of foreign currency by manufacturing spare parts of mobile phones as such a capacity has been created in the country, an expert of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has said. ‘Many local companies have started assembling as well as marketing of mobile phone parts here... this is a capacity of Bangladesh and the country should go for manufacturing those parts capitalising on that capacity,’ Prof Kamal Uddin, Director of the Institute of Appropriate Technology (IAT) at BUET, said on Monday. Kamal said it’s possible to produce at least 20 to 25 per cent spare parts of mobile phone sets using local technological know-how. ‘Mobile phone is a high-content technology but initially the country can produce good-quality covers, casings and mainframes of mobile phones,’ he said. Methods such as Semi-Knocked Down (SKD) and Complete-Knocked Down (CKD) could be applied in the manufacturing process and afterward those companies could be turned into manufacturers by providing them with necessary fiscal policy support in the form of incentives, according to UNB.