Optical fiber cable plant to be set up
Monday, 8 June 2009
KHULNA, June 7: An optical fibre cable plant is being set up at Bangladesh Cable Shilpo Limited (BCSL) situated at the city's Shiromoni area. This plant will be the first of its kind in the country. When it goes into production, the country will not be required to import optical fibre cables from abroad.
A meeting of BCSL Directory Board was held at its conference room on May 23 last chaired by the Secretary of Post and Telecommunications Ministry Sunil Kanti Bosh and attended among others by joint secretary Dilruba Begum of Post and Telecommunications Ministry, Khulna Divisional Commissioner Younusur Rahman, Managing Director of BTCL SM Khabiruzzaman and Managing Director of BCSL Md Bahadur Ali.
The board meeting approved the decision to set up optical fibre cable plant in the BCSL.
In this connection the Managing Director of BCSL Bahadur Ali informed that at present another committee is working to prepare a project profile to set up the plant. Later an international tender will be invited. He said, at present optical fibre in not produced in the country. The country will save a huge amount of foreign currency when the fibre cable goes into production.
Concerned sources said that the state owned cable factory would be able to export the product after meeting the local demand. It may be mentioned that the use of the cell phone has increased manifold in the recent past whereas the demand for land phone has dropped. As a result the production of copper cable has fallen.
A meeting of BCSL Directory Board was held at its conference room on May 23 last chaired by the Secretary of Post and Telecommunications Ministry Sunil Kanti Bosh and attended among others by joint secretary Dilruba Begum of Post and Telecommunications Ministry, Khulna Divisional Commissioner Younusur Rahman, Managing Director of BTCL SM Khabiruzzaman and Managing Director of BCSL Md Bahadur Ali.
The board meeting approved the decision to set up optical fibre cable plant in the BCSL.
In this connection the Managing Director of BCSL Bahadur Ali informed that at present another committee is working to prepare a project profile to set up the plant. Later an international tender will be invited. He said, at present optical fibre in not produced in the country. The country will save a huge amount of foreign currency when the fibre cable goes into production.
Concerned sources said that the state owned cable factory would be able to export the product after meeting the local demand. It may be mentioned that the use of the cell phone has increased manifold in the recent past whereas the demand for land phone has dropped. As a result the production of copper cable has fallen.