EPB planning automation of textile cell to make hassle-free services
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) is planning automation of its textile cell to make the existing hassle-free services and more client-focused, reports BSS.
European Union (EU) will provide fund for the automation of the textile cell as an EU consultant is likely to visit Bangladesh next month to have a need assessment.
The textile cell now issues 1,000 certificates such as Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) and South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) on a daily basis, which eats up enormous valuable times of both EPB officials and clients.
"Existing services of the textile cell has become the main problem of EPB and its client-focused service needs to be more strengthened," Jalal Ahmed, vice chairman of EPB, said in an exclusive interview with the news agency.
The textile cell of EPB doesn't have any comfortable seating place for local and foreign clients who use to visit on a daily basis, Ahmed said terming it a discredit for the EPB.
He said the existing delivery system of the cell is cumbersome, clumsy and time-consuming as sometimes it takes three or four days to issue a certificate instead of a day's work. Officials of the institution would not have to interact with outsiders for the certificate issuance purpose once the textile cell is automated in the EPB, he added.
European Union (EU) will provide fund for the automation of the textile cell as an EU consultant is likely to visit Bangladesh next month to have a need assessment.
The textile cell now issues 1,000 certificates such as Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) and South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) on a daily basis, which eats up enormous valuable times of both EPB officials and clients.
"Existing services of the textile cell has become the main problem of EPB and its client-focused service needs to be more strengthened," Jalal Ahmed, vice chairman of EPB, said in an exclusive interview with the news agency.
The textile cell of EPB doesn't have any comfortable seating place for local and foreign clients who use to visit on a daily basis, Ahmed said terming it a discredit for the EPB.
He said the existing delivery system of the cell is cumbersome, clumsy and time-consuming as sometimes it takes three or four days to issue a certificate instead of a day's work. Officials of the institution would not have to interact with outsiders for the certificate issuance purpose once the textile cell is automated in the EPB, he added.