Rajshahi BSCIC expansion to create 5,000 jobs
Expansion of the industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi will create employment opportunities for around 5,000 people.
A project to this end has been conceived to acquire 50 acres of land in Parila union of Poba upazila to develop 308 industrial plots there to ensure the evolvement of small and medium enterprises (SME) in the region.
Altaf Hossain, regional director of BSCIC, said 10 percent of the industrial plots in the estate would be kept reserved for women entrepreneurs. The project titled “Extension of Rajshahi BSCIC Industrial Estate” will require Tk 132 crore. BSCIC will implement it by June 2017.
In the project, there will be three types of industrial plots. The number of A-type industrial unit is 83 having 6,000 square feet each while 89 units will be B-type with 4,500 square feet each and the remaining plots will be S-type with the size of 3,500- 8,000 square feet.
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