Minister for utilising Indian industrial experience

Industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayunon Thursday stressed the need for utilising the Indian experience for development of the country's emerging industrial sectors.
He gave the emphasis in response to a proposal by Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami to utilise their expertise for expediting industrialisation of Bangladesh.
The Indian envoy offered his country's experience in automobile, light engineering, agriculture machinery and API sectors as he called on the minister at the ministry.
The minister suggested identifying the sectors for mutual cooperation between the two countries through holding dialogues and exchanging views between the experts of the two countries.
The meeting also discussed on bilateral issues including strengthening bilateral trade, increase Bangladesh export to India, expansion of land port-related business activities, easy solution to the bottlenecks of export and mutual recognition on certification of products.
Mr Doraiswami said India is interested to work with Bangladesh on the basis of greater economic partnership.
He suggested creating strong linkage between Indian accredited organisation and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) to facilitate export of food and non-food items of Bangladesh to India.
He also offered Indian cooperation to Bangladesh for launching mobile testing laboratory for testing the quality and standard of the products.
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