Call to allocate fund for setting up spl agro-based EPZ in Rajshahi
Our Correspondent | Wednesday, 18 June 2008
RAJSHAHI, June 17: Executives of NGOs, local elite and businessmen of Rajshahi have placed a seven-point charter of demands to be included in the proposed budget.
They placed the demands through a recent press conference at the auditorium of Barendra Unnayan Prochesta (BUP) for the development of the neglected northern region of the country.
The demands include:
1) A special allocation of fund for reopening and development of the closed silk industries and thus alleviating poverty by reemploying poor silk farmers who used to work at the grassroots level of production line-up.
2) An allocation of special fund for prevention of the bad effects of climate change in Rajshahi.
3) A special allocation for setting up an agriculture-based EPZ (export processing zone) and for agriculture-based industries in Rajshahi.
4) Allocation for setting up gas pipelines in Rajshahi for fuelling the industries.
5) Introduction of more trains and aeroplanes on Rajshahi-Dhaka route.
6) At least 100 working days within the social security web programme and a minimum wage of Taka 150 per day for the workers and labourers include the aboriginal and the 'char' population of Rajshahi.
7) Setting up of the promised fertiliser factory for the northern region in Rajshahi district.
They placed the demands through a recent press conference at the auditorium of Barendra Unnayan Prochesta (BUP) for the development of the neglected northern region of the country.
The demands include:
1) A special allocation of fund for reopening and development of the closed silk industries and thus alleviating poverty by reemploying poor silk farmers who used to work at the grassroots level of production line-up.
2) An allocation of special fund for prevention of the bad effects of climate change in Rajshahi.
3) A special allocation for setting up an agriculture-based EPZ (export processing zone) and for agriculture-based industries in Rajshahi.
4) Allocation for setting up gas pipelines in Rajshahi for fuelling the industries.
5) Introduction of more trains and aeroplanes on Rajshahi-Dhaka route.
6) At least 100 working days within the social security web programme and a minimum wage of Taka 150 per day for the workers and labourers include the aboriginal and the 'char' population of Rajshahi.
7) Setting up of the promised fertiliser factory for the northern region in Rajshahi district.