Palak lays foundation stone of Cox’s Bazar Hi-Tech Park

Palak lays foundation stone of Cox’s Bazar Hi-Tech Park

ICT state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak laid the foundation stone of Cox’s Bazar Hi-Tech Park at a function at Cox’s Bazar Cultural Centre on Saturday.
He said that three years ago the size of the digital economy was only 26 million dollar and currently it is 1.4 billion dollar. The government was working to increase ICT exports to 5 billion dollar and employment in the ICT sector to 30 million skilled human resources through training by 2025.
Shaimum Sarwar Kamal, member of parliament for Cox’s Bazar-3 constituency, presided over the event, said a press release.
The ICT state minister handed over laptops as gift from the prime minister to the Sheikh Russel National Children’s Council members and the free-lancers of Cox’s Bazar area.
In his welcome speech, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority managing director Bikarna Kumar Ghosh said that the work of setting up 92 Hi-Tech Parks/Software Technology Parks/IT Training and Incubation Centres in Bangladesh through the Hi-Tech Park Authority is currently underway. Nine parks have already been set up and business activities have already started.
So far, 190 organisations have been allotted spaces and plots in the Hi-Tech Parks, out of which 123 organisations have already started operations and 151 local startup companies have been allotted free spaces/co-working spaces.
Project director AKAM Fazlul Haque said that the construction work of this high-tech park in Cox’s Bazar is going on in about 8.07 acres of land at a cost of about Tk 150 crore. The park will create employment opportunities for about 3000 people. Besides, under the project, 1000 people will be trained, he said.