Entries by kmars

ECNEC approves 7 projects worth Tk 5238cr

ECNEC approves 7 projects worth Tk 5238cr The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved seven development projects worth of Tk 5 238.54-crore. The projects were approved at a meeting held at NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area in the capital on Tuesday (March 14) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the […]

Ecnec approves projects worth Tk30,343.22 crore

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was speaking at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday  Focus Bangla ‘The biggest project we are undertaking in the history of Bangladesh is the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at the cost of Tk1,13,093cr’ The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved […]

Ecnec approves 13 projects worth Tk20,402.75cr

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with the Ecnec members at the committee’s 25th meetting of the 2016-17 fiscal year in Dhaka on April 25, 2017. Tk10,730 crore of the budget will come as project assistance, said Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has approved a Tk20,402.75-crore budget to […]

ECNEC okays 8 projects involving Tk 3,172cr

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ECNEC chairperson, presides over the weekly ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC conference room on Tuesday (August 1, 2017) Dhaka: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has cleared an infrastructural development project for the country’s Shewra, Bhomra, Ramghar and Benapole land ports involving […]

WB to give additional $47.49m for Ctg water infrastructure

World Bank (WB) will give an additional USD 47.49 million financing to continue constuction of new water infrastructure in Chittagong. It will also provide access to safe4 water for around 650,000 inhabitants in the port city. An agreement to this effect was signed on Sunday between the government and the WB at the NEC Conference […]

Two foreign cos to build LNG terminal in Cox s Bazar

The government is set to allow two foreign companies for constructing a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on Kutubdia Island in Cox’s Bazar to bridge the existing gap between the demand and supply of natural gas in the country, officials said. Under the move, the cabinet committee on economic affairs is set to approve […]

Foreign firms queue up for building small re-gasification units

A number of global firms are queueing up to bag contracts for building three small floating, storage, re-gasification units (FSRUs) for imported LNG (liquefied natural gas), said officials. Some 14 firms including South Korea’s Kogas, Belgium’s Exmar and Singapore’s Pavilion have submitted proposals to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) under the Ministry of […]

আরও ৬ পোশাক কারখানা রুগ্ন শিপ্লের তালিকায় সংযুক্ত হচ্ছে

এম শাহজাহান ॥ পোশাক খাতে রুগ্ন শিল্পের তালিকা দীর্ঘ হচ্ছে। নতুন করে আরও ছয়টি পোশাক কারখানাকে রুগ্ন শিল্প ঘোষণা করে তা স্থায়ীভাবে বন্ধ করার জন্য সরকারের সংশ্লিষ্ট মন্ত্রণালয়ে আবেদন করা হয়েছে। আরও অর্ধশতাধিক প্রতিষ্ঠান রুগ্ন শিল্প হওয়ার পথে। বর্তমান ২৭৯টি পোশাক কারখানা অর্থ মন্ত্রণালয় কর্তৃক রুগ্ন প্রতিষ্ঠান হিসেবে স্বীকৃতি পেয়েছে। প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলো রুগ্ন হওয়ার জন্য ছয়টি […]

Tk 9.56b project to ready Mongla-Paksey waterway

ECNEC okays project on the route for transporting heavy machines to the Rooppur nuclear power plant FE Report The government will carve a navigation route from maritime Mongla to Paksey on the Padma for transport of heavy-duty equipment for the Rooppur nuclear power plant under a Tk 9.56-billion project. This is one of eight projects […]