Govt eyes 50,000 jobs in Sylhet Hi-Tech Park.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib

Hi-Tech Park in Sylhet is expected to

generate some 50 thousand new jobs when it

will start full functioning by March 31.

Hi-Tech Park Authority Managing Director

(MD) Hosne Ara Begum expressed this view

while talking to a group of journalists in

Sylhet on Friday.

At least 80 per cent of the construction

works of the park had been completed by

December 31, 2020.

Hosne Ara Begum said the project would

create a high demand for the local IT

professionals.

After the completion of the park, young

IT professionals will throng Sylhet

instead of coming to Dhaka to work in the

IT park.

"We regularly invite local and foreign

investors to invest here. The global brand

'Sony' and local Pran have taken all

industrial lands for establishing their

plants and they will begin their

construction work shortly," she said.

The MD told this correspondent that they

are moving to acquire more land for

getting huge applications for industrial

plots.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-Tech Park,

Sylhet, Project Director Barrister Md

Golam Sorwar Bhuiyan said that a proposal

was forwarded by the Bangladesh Hi-Tech

Park Authority (BHTPA) to raise the cost

of the work for more land development.

The BHTPA undertook the project to

develop it on an area of 162.82 acres of

land in Companyganj upazila of Sylhet and

developed the land of the area.

Bangladesh Navy-run Dockyard and

Engineering Works Ltd (DEWL) obtained the

land-development work of the hi-tech

project, titled 'Earthwork in periphery

embankment, Site development by carried

dredge-soil and Embankment Slop

Protection' at a contract value of about

Tk 133.19 crore.

Deputy Project Director Firoj Ahmed said

the DEWL was selected for the work through

direct procurement method (DPM) which

means it did not have to compete in tender

process. But, recently, the DEWL proposed

that its contract value be raised, saying

that it will need extra 78,088 cubic

meters of soil and 848,800 cubic meters of

sand for the proposed land development.

After the survey, it revised the

requirement reducing the amount of soil at

47,764 cubic meters and sand at 440,178

cubic meters and...