China to help build exhibition centre in city
Thursday, 10 December 2009
FE Report
The government will start construction of a permanent exhibition centre at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the capital early next year involving an investment of Tk 2.75 billion to offer world-class facilities for arranging fairs and conferences, officials said Monday.
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) officials said they would complete construction of the proposed "Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre" by December, 2011 with financial support of the Chinese government.
"We've already been allotted about 43 acres of land on the north-western side of the old airport. We are ready to start work next year," EPB Vice Chairman Mir Md Shahab Ullah told the FE.
He expressed his optimism about completion of the fair complex construction with indoor facilities by December, 2011.
The EPB every year arranges the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair at an open place in the city's Sher-e-Banglanagar area. A lot of investment is required for developing the fair site and build stalls and pavilions.
The annual fair, a major trade promotion event in Bangladesh, would be held at the proposed permanent exhibition complex to make more facilities available and cut expenditure of the organiser as well as participants.
"We are awaiting approval of the ECNEC. Just after getting the consent, we will start the construction work," Mr Shahab Ullah said adding that the Chinese government would provide the maximum amount of Tk 2.10 billion of the Tk 2.75 billion project cost.
China would provide the funds as grant and a Chinese contractor would build the centre at the selected site in the capital, he added.
The EPB planned to construct the permanent fair complex at the same place about 10 years back, but it remained stalled in the face of reservations expressed by the civil aviation authority and the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), EPB officials said.
The government will start construction of a permanent exhibition centre at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the capital early next year involving an investment of Tk 2.75 billion to offer world-class facilities for arranging fairs and conferences, officials said Monday.
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) officials said they would complete construction of the proposed "Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre" by December, 2011 with financial support of the Chinese government.
"We've already been allotted about 43 acres of land on the north-western side of the old airport. We are ready to start work next year," EPB Vice Chairman Mir Md Shahab Ullah told the FE.
He expressed his optimism about completion of the fair complex construction with indoor facilities by December, 2011.
The EPB every year arranges the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair at an open place in the city's Sher-e-Banglanagar area. A lot of investment is required for developing the fair site and build stalls and pavilions.
The annual fair, a major trade promotion event in Bangladesh, would be held at the proposed permanent exhibition complex to make more facilities available and cut expenditure of the organiser as well as participants.
"We are awaiting approval of the ECNEC. Just after getting the consent, we will start the construction work," Mr Shahab Ullah said adding that the Chinese government would provide the maximum amount of Tk 2.10 billion of the Tk 2.75 billion project cost.
China would provide the funds as grant and a Chinese contractor would build the centre at the selected site in the capital, he added.
The EPB planned to construct the permanent fair complex at the same place about 10 years back, but it remained stalled in the face of reservations expressed by the civil aviation authority and the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), EPB officials said.