IT-based trade info service centre at BCSIR by yr-end
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Bangladesh Council of Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR), the state-run apex body for scientific innovation and promotion, has planed to set up an IT-based trade related service centre, especially for entrepreneurs, importers and exporters, reports BSS.
The centre dubbed `Centre for Trade and Technology Information Research and Services (CTTIRC)' would be set up under the Instrumentation and Calibration Service Laboratory (ICSL), the country's lone reference lab at BCSIR.
The Tk 80 million (Tk 8.0 crore) proposed CTTIRC, first of its kind in the country, is designed for providing most-up-to-date import-export data to entrepreneurs, importers, exporters, scientists and policymakers for creating new export destinations in the present WTO regime.
This was disclosed at an idea sharing workshop on 'Establishing the CTTIRC in ICSL-BCSIR' held at the council's auditorium in the city on Tuesday night.
Science and ICT Secretary AKM Abdul Awal Majumder spoke at the workshop as the chief guest.
Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) Dr M Mosharraf Hossain was the special guest on the occasion with BCSIR Prof SM Imamul Huq in the chair.
BCSIR Scientific Officer Mala Khan presented the keynote paper on the `CTTIRC in ICSL-BCSIR' giving a picture of the country's struggling importers, exporters and entrepreneurs in the present era of globalisation.
Mr Majumder said a good number of local products were now facing problems while trying to enter the international markets due to technical and quality restrictions next to tariff barriers.
He pleaded that the BCSIR authorities come up with helping hand to provide businessmen with necessary support for the growth of the export market. The government wanted to serve businessmen on a justifiable basis and therefore necessary steps have been taken to turn the BCSIR into a sustainable one, said the ICT secretary.
Dr Hossain came down heavily on the extensive use of some pesticide-treated local products in the country, saying these products face problem of non-compliance when these are being sent to the international markets.
Prof SM Imamul Huq said local entrepreneurs could be benefited enormously if they knew about the BCSIR-invented series of innovations.
It is unfortunate that Bangladesh has no calibration system for instruments, he said terming it a bottleneck on the way of product diversification in world market.
BCSIR chairman said the proposed CTTIRC would have collaboration with regional and international information centres so that areas of interest for businessmen could be included in it.
The centre dubbed `Centre for Trade and Technology Information Research and Services (CTTIRC)' would be set up under the Instrumentation and Calibration Service Laboratory (ICSL), the country's lone reference lab at BCSIR.
The Tk 80 million (Tk 8.0 crore) proposed CTTIRC, first of its kind in the country, is designed for providing most-up-to-date import-export data to entrepreneurs, importers, exporters, scientists and policymakers for creating new export destinations in the present WTO regime.
This was disclosed at an idea sharing workshop on 'Establishing the CTTIRC in ICSL-BCSIR' held at the council's auditorium in the city on Tuesday night.
Science and ICT Secretary AKM Abdul Awal Majumder spoke at the workshop as the chief guest.
Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) Dr M Mosharraf Hossain was the special guest on the occasion with BCSIR Prof SM Imamul Huq in the chair.
BCSIR Scientific Officer Mala Khan presented the keynote paper on the `CTTIRC in ICSL-BCSIR' giving a picture of the country's struggling importers, exporters and entrepreneurs in the present era of globalisation.
Mr Majumder said a good number of local products were now facing problems while trying to enter the international markets due to technical and quality restrictions next to tariff barriers.
He pleaded that the BCSIR authorities come up with helping hand to provide businessmen with necessary support for the growth of the export market. The government wanted to serve businessmen on a justifiable basis and therefore necessary steps have been taken to turn the BCSIR into a sustainable one, said the ICT secretary.
Dr Hossain came down heavily on the extensive use of some pesticide-treated local products in the country, saying these products face problem of non-compliance when these are being sent to the international markets.
Prof SM Imamul Huq said local entrepreneurs could be benefited enormously if they knew about the BCSIR-invented series of innovations.
It is unfortunate that Bangladesh has no calibration system for instruments, he said terming it a bottleneck on the way of product diversification in world market.
BCSIR chairman said the proposed CTTIRC would have collaboration with regional and international information centres so that areas of interest for businessmen could be included in it.