Necessary process for setting up of a High tech park in the city is
progressing fast that creates high hopes among all quarters concerned
particularly the business icons and ICT experts.
A 50-acre site has been selected at Bulanpur area under Rajpara Police
Station, where an IT village and agriculture biotechnology park namely
“Varendra Silicon City” is going to be established.
Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury, Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi, says site
selection works has been completed and works of land acquisition are
being progressed successfully.
“We will go more one-step forward in this regard when the park
authority will get the possession of a 19-acre land from Water
Development Board and Department of Public Works within next 15 days,”
he added.
People of the city and its adjacent areas will get privileges of using
modern technology in different productive fields including agriculture
upon successful completion of the initiation works on the vast tract
of land.
Besides, new more avenues of employment especially for the ICT people
will be created in this venture.
As per the government decision, the park has provision for attracting
foreign companies to set up operations in the country alongside
developing indigenous technological capability for the development of
the local industries.
In true sense, the park intends to create conducive atmosphere for
establishing ICT, engineering, electronics, telecommunication,
biotechnology and other related knowledge based industry.
Besides, providing necessary administrative support service to the
potential entrepreneurs interested in investing at the Hi-Tech park
that will ensure electricity, water, sewerage, gas, telephone,
internet and other utility services.
The DC added that the hi-tech park will be established with a view to
achieving a set of specific mission and vision of establishing a world
class business environment for targeted high growth industrial sector
and new business.
In addition to develop indigenous technological capability for the
development of the local industries the park will help entering into
foreign markets by exporting state of the art technology products.
The developed infrastructure will facilitate hassle-free industrial
operation with necessary support.
Abu Bakker Ali, President of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, said, “We want to see immediate implementation of the
proposed hi-tech park”.
He says there is no alternative to promotion of modern technologies in
the industrial and agricultural sectors for making those more valued
added.
“Rajshahi has tremendous potentialities of setting of hi-tech park as
Rajshahi University and Rajshahi University of Engineering and
Technology (RUET) generate more than 200 ICT people every year,” Dr
Sabbir Ahmed, associate professor of Information and Communication
Technology Department of Rajshahi University, said.
It is a fact that information technology has been identified as the
“thrust sector” for the economy of the region. In the field of science
and technology, it has been realized that significant commitments have
to be made to achieve high level prosperity in near future, he added.
–BSS, Rajshahi
