BSCIC Entrepreneurs Fair-2025 begining. Photo : BSS

KHULNA, Jan 8, 2025 (BSS) - A 10-day BSCIC Entrepreneurs Fair-2025 began here
today with a call to boost the economic condition of the region through
increased promotion of its industrial sector.
 
District office of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation
(BSCIC) is hosting the fair at its office premises adjacent to Shibbari
crossing.
 
A spectrum of locally produced industrial goods, including leather products,
jute-made products, processed agricultural products, electrical and
electronic goods, clothes, design and fashion wares and other products are
being displayed at 35 stalls set up at the fair.
 
Divisional Commissioner Firoj Sarker and Commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan
Police Zulfiker Ali Haider addressed the opening ceremony as the chief and
special guests respectively with Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Saiful Islam in
the chair.

BSCIC Deputy General Manager Golam Saklain welcomed the participants.
 
Commissioner Firoj Sarker said handlooms and cottage goods symbolised the
true craftsmanship of the Bangladeshi artisans.
 
Various artisan communities are scattered throughout the country, communities
consisting of people who solely depend on their crafts as a primary source of
income.
 
He underscored the need for hosting more fairs of such types to protect the
handicrafts goods from diminishing further.
 
Additional investment in this sector was needed to bolster the economic
condition of both urban and rural areas and to rid the society from the
vicious circle of poverty.
 
Firoj Sarker said more expansion of investment to this sector is needed for
bolstering the economic condition of both urban and rural areas together with
freeing the society from the vicious circle of poverty.
 
BSCIC Deputy General Manager Golam Saklain told the meeting that the fair had
been organised in order to increase the visibility of handloom and cottage
industrial goods through preserving and encouraging the practices of local
artisans.
 
The fair will remain open from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm every day until January 17.