Focus on good governance to raise industrial productivity

Industries Secretary M Abdul Halim has underscored the need for ensuring good governance in the management of industries to increase productivity, reports BSS.
Good governance plays an important role in creating employment and developing skills through strengthening economic growth, he said.
Bangladesh has already achieved mentionable success in poverty alleviation through good governance, he noted.
The secretary was speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session of a five-day workshop on "Accountable Governance for Productivity Growth and Competitiveness" at a hotel in the capital, said a press release.
Japan-based Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) and National Productivity Organisation (NPO) are jointly organising the workshop.
Abdul Halim said, Bangladesh has already achieved the recognition of the world community as the 'land of impossible attainments'.
"Bangladesh exceeded South Asian countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)," he mentioned.
"In 2010, the country's poverty rate was 18.5 per cent, which was down to 12.9 per cent in 2016. According to the World Bank projection, Bangladesh's poverty rate will fall below three per cent by 2030," Abdul Halim added.
Additional Secretary of the industries ministry Lutfur Nahar Begum presided over the opening session while NPO Director SM Ashrafuzzaman and ANO Programme Officer Dr Jose Elvinia were present, among others.