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2-day SME fair ends in Rajshahi


Bangladeshpost
Published : 28 Jun 2019 07:25 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 08:45 PM

A two-day Small and Medium Entrepreneurship (SME) fair ends on Friday at Rajshahi. 

The fair which inaugurated on Thursday aims at expanding business, trade and commerce through exhibiting the local SME goods.

SME Development Wing Oikya Foundation organized the fair at Green Plaza of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC). RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzman Liton addressed the opening ceremony as the chief guest with President of the Oikya Foundation Shaheen Akter Rainy in the chair. Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank Monoj Kumar Bishwas, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Nazrul Islam and Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Amir Zafar also spoke on the occasion.

In the fair, a huge spectrum of locally produced SME goods including leather products, jute-made products, handicrafts, processed agricultural products, electrical and electronic goods, clothes, design and fashion wares and other products are being showcased at around 30 stalls. Mayor Liton said the present government has adopted various need-based measures for taking forward the SME sector and the country has achieved tremendous uplift in every sector with the participation of both men and women.

He put special emphasis on involving more female entrepreneurs with the flourishing of local SME sector to accelerate the pace of national development through enhancing national economic growth and poverty alleviation.