UNIDO to support science, innovation infrastructure

UNIDO Director General Dr Kandeh K Yumkella visits the Instrumentation & Calibration Service Laboratory at BCSIR in the city recently. Photo: Courtesy

Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Dr Kandeh K Yumkella has expressed his firm commitment to support science and innovation infrastructure in the country.
UNIDO would be happy to “scale up the partnership” with the newly developed Instrumentation & Calibration Service Laboratory (ICSL) for the development of the national measurement system to be accepted by the international communities through accreditation, he said during a visit to the laboratory at BCSIR (Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) in Dhaka recently.
The ICSL is the nation's first reference laboratory in chemistry.
The UNIDO support will come through the Ministry of Science and ICT under various international technical assistance programmes, says a press release.
The UNIDO chief also stressed the need to create national wealth through industrialisation and promoting SMEs in order to eradicate poverty.
Md Abdul Hannan, ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh to UN in Geneva, accompanied the UNIDO chief during his visit to the BCSIR.
The UNIDO delegation team comprising nine members from Vienna, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Dhaka ended its three-day visit to Bangladesh on June 8.