 Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday said the government is working with a target of manufacturing cars at home within 2012, using own technology.
"The government will set up a separate 'automobile industrial park' for capacity building of the automobile workshops, modernization and meeting the demand of trained technicians in this sector" he said.
Dilip Barua was talking to the leaders of Bangladesh Automobile Workshop Owners Association who called on him at his office, an official handout said.
Association President M Belayet Hossain and Secretary General Engineer Jahangir Alam, among others, were present.
The minister said the government would provide necessary support to the local automobile workshops for the sake of industrialization and self-reliant economy.
Automobile workers are playing an important role in creating employment and earning remittances. Skilled manpower in this sector will accelerate the process of industrialization in the country, the minister said.
The association leaders said expansion of automobile industry would help build a 'Digital Bangladesh.'
"Car production is possible domestically, if infrastructural facilities and government patronization are given to local automobile industries", the leaders said. |