BSCIC creates employment for 12,572 people in Rajshahi
Tuesday, 26 December 2017
RAJSHAHI, Dec 25 (BSS): The industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi has created mployment scopes of more than 12,572 people in various trades in last nine years.
The people got the jobs in various fields like enterprise development, skill development and training, industry ownership transfer and establishment of new industries.
"We are going to create jobs for more 11,913 people in next five years," Deputy General Manager of BSCIC Sazedur Rahman said in the city on Monday.
He said in last nine years, 3,045 people were imparted entrepreneurship development and skill development training for entrepreneurship development and employment generation.
"We have extended support to 1,185 entrepreneurs in getting industrial loan worth around Tk 76.86 crore (Tk 768.6 million)," Rahman said adding that registration was given to 261 industries. Investment worth around Tk 265.5 million (Tk 26.55 crore) was done in 41 industries through ownership transfer.
Meanwhile, the BSCIC industrial estate has started making profit with investment by some of the country's big companies.
Companies like Abul Khair Group, Pran Agro Limited and Nitol Group have launched industries. The sick and laid off industries are gradually being replaced with new viable ones.
"The sick industry owners will either restart their businesses or transfer possession of their units," said Sazedur Rahman adding that creation of new estates became necessary to meet the local demand.
Most of the industrial units have become profitable over the last couple of years as the local entrepreneurs have been showing keen interest in restarting the sick industries and operating their business successfully after transferring ownership.
The 325-plot BSCIC industrial estate, established in 1961 on 95.71 acres of land on the north-western divisional city's outskirts, has been providing electricity, water supply, security, road and drainage facilities to the entrepreneurs for running their business.
Several silk-clothes manufacturing units earned reputation for their quality products. They expect that there will be no more sick industry in the estate, the officials said.