Industrial zone for plastic factories on cards
The government plans to build an industrial zone for plastic goods manufacturers beside the Dhaka-Mawa road in Munshiganj.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved the Tk 133-crore project, which will be completed by 2018.
Small plastic factories in Old Dhaka will be relocated to the new industrial zone, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told reporters after a meeting of the committee.
According to the project proposal, 360 industrial units will be set up on the 100-acre land.
The minister said the owners will be encouraged through discussions to shift their factories.
The number of plastic factories spread across the country is 5,030. Of them, 50 are big, 1,480 are medium and the rest are small.
Almost 80 percent of the factories are in Dhaka and 90 percent of the small units are in Old Dhaka.
The Ecnec also gave a go-ahead to another project for setting up a medical college along with a 250-bed hospital in Manikganj at an estimated cost of Tk 615 crore.
At the meeting, a Tk 800-crore project got the green light for providing safe water to the poor.
The water level has been receding gradually because of various natural calamities, including the adverse effect of climate change, the minister said.
An initiative has been taken to meet the demand for safe water by harvesting rainwater on around 1,700 government ponds, he said.
About 45,000 new and old tube-wells will be set up or renovated and some 400 wells will be dug.
Around 74 percent of the country's total population now get safe water and the project targets to increase the number to 88 percent, according to the proposal.
The Ecnec yesterday approved a total of seven projects at a cost of Tk 2,038 crore.
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