‘Promote entrepreneurship to boost economic progress’

Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation A H M Khairuzzaman Liton on Sunday underscored the need for promoting entrepreneurship for boosting economic progress in Rajshahi region, reports BSS.
"All the government and non-government entities concerned should extend requisite supports including bank loan on simple interest towards making the
entrepreneurship generation process easy," he said while inaugurating a month-long entrepreneurship development training course in Rajshahi city as the chief guest.
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) under its Entrepreneurship Creation and Skill Development Programme organised the opening ceremony at the Deputy Commissioner's conference hall.
Chaired by Deputy Commissioner Hamidul Haque, the session was also addressed by BIDA Director Benjamin Riazi, Additional Deputy Commissioner Shariful Haque and Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat.
Mayor Liton urged the youths to come forward to be entrepreneurs instead of depending on only public sector jobs as the government has taken massive measures for promoting entrepreneurship in the country.
"Industrial development is the precondition to development of the region. Women participation is very much important to the development process. Women have enormous scopes of working in ICT sector," he said.