UNB, Dhaka :
A two-day ‘DCCI Entrepreneurship and Innovation Expo’ began in the city on Sunday to showcase innovative projects of some 2,000 new entrepreneurs, which will create opportunities for the local and global business community.
Oraganised jointly by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) and the Bangladesh Bank at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), the exposition will provide a unique opportunity for all the prospective businessmen for exchange of views and ideas and act as a platform for dreamers, professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, industry leaders and visionaries.
Barrister Fazle Nur Taposh, MP, formally launched the Expo in absence of Finance Minister AMA Muhith who was supposed to grace the occasion as the chief guest.
DCCI Foundation chairman and chairman of Anwar Group of Industries Alhaj Anwar Hossain spoke on the occasion as the special guest, while DCCI president Mohammad Shahjahan Khan gave the address of welcome. Former DCCI president and chairman of E2K project Md Sabur Khan also spoke, while its senior vice president Osama Taseer gave the vote of thanks.
The chief guest, the special guest and the high ups of the DCCI also handed over cheques of credit from various banks to nine entrepreneurs under the DCCI’s initiative of creating 2,000 new entrepreneurs.
Since the main difficulty for new entrepreneurs is getting finance, the two-day exposition aims to make a bridge between these entrepreneurs and financial institutions.
The finally selected 2000 projects are being showcased in this mega exposition. In the Expo, the banks and other financial institutions will get the opportunity to display their financing products and services before the new entrepreneurs.
The Expo will also showcase the products and services of banks for promoting new entrepreneurs. Besides, it will also showcase the innovative products of entrepreneurs.
Speaking on the occasion as the chief guest, Barrister Fazle Nur Taposh, MP, welcomed the DCCI’s bid for creating new entrepreneurship since there is a need for transforming country’s huge population into workforce.
He also stressed the need for widening the tax net rather than increasing the rate through easing the process of taxation which will enhance the government’s revenue collection.
Taposh also underscored the need for searching the way of investing huge idle money at the banks and other financial institutions.
DCCI president Mohammad Shahjahan Khan in his welcome address said that a total of 39 bank and non-bank financial institutions are taking part in the two-day exposition where apart from Bangladesh Bank, Junior Chamber International (JCI)-Dhaka, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), Daffodil International University, BD Venture Limited, Small and Cottage Industries Training Institute (SCITI), Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), CTO Forum, Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB), Hackathon, World Bank, the Future Leaders Ltd (the FLL), UK, Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) and Rotary International are supporting the DCCI in creating entrepreneurship.
Shahjahan Khan said that some 3,200 entrepreneurs have registered their names with the DCCI through on-line of which 2,200 business projects of different categories have been received by the DCCI.
A two-day ‘DCCI Entrepreneurship and Innovation Expo’ began in the city on Sunday to showcase innovative projects of some 2,000 new entrepreneurs, which will create opportunities for the local and global business community.
Oraganised jointly by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) and the Bangladesh Bank at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), the exposition will provide a unique opportunity for all the prospective businessmen for exchange of views and ideas and act as a platform for dreamers, professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, industry leaders and visionaries.
Barrister Fazle Nur Taposh, MP, formally launched the Expo in absence of Finance Minister AMA Muhith who was supposed to grace the occasion as the chief guest.
DCCI Foundation chairman and chairman of Anwar Group of Industries Alhaj Anwar Hossain spoke on the occasion as the special guest, while DCCI president Mohammad Shahjahan Khan gave the address of welcome. Former DCCI president and chairman of E2K project Md Sabur Khan also spoke, while its senior vice president Osama Taseer gave the vote of thanks.
The chief guest, the special guest and the high ups of the DCCI also handed over cheques of credit from various banks to nine entrepreneurs under the DCCI’s initiative of creating 2,000 new entrepreneurs.
Since the main difficulty for new entrepreneurs is getting finance, the two-day exposition aims to make a bridge between these entrepreneurs and financial institutions.
The finally selected 2000 projects are being showcased in this mega exposition. In the Expo, the banks and other financial institutions will get the opportunity to display their financing products and services before the new entrepreneurs.
The Expo will also showcase the products and services of banks for promoting new entrepreneurs. Besides, it will also showcase the innovative products of entrepreneurs.
Speaking on the occasion as the chief guest, Barrister Fazle Nur Taposh, MP, welcomed the DCCI’s bid for creating new entrepreneurship since there is a need for transforming country’s huge population into workforce.
He also stressed the need for widening the tax net rather than increasing the rate through easing the process of taxation which will enhance the government’s revenue collection.
Taposh also underscored the need for searching the way of investing huge idle money at the banks and other financial institutions.
DCCI president Mohammad Shahjahan Khan in his welcome address said that a total of 39 bank and non-bank financial institutions are taking part in the two-day exposition where apart from Bangladesh Bank, Junior Chamber International (JCI)-Dhaka, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), Daffodil International University, BD Venture Limited, Small and Cottage Industries Training Institute (SCITI), Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), CTO Forum, Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB), Hackathon, World Bank, the Future Leaders Ltd (the FLL), UK, Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) and Rotary International are supporting the DCCI in creating entrepreneurship.
Shahjahan Khan said that some 3,200 entrepreneurs have registered their names with the DCCI through on-line of which 2,200 business projects of different categories have been received by the DCCI.
