| For the first time the government is going to honour ten Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRB) along with 81 businessmen and industrialists as Commercially Important Person (CIP) for their contribution to the economic development of the country in 2009.
Very recently cabinet division circulated the new CIP list among departments concerned which will be officially declared after approval of the Prime Minister.
New CIPs will enjoy various facilities declared by the government for one year. This year government selected 10 persons from expatriates' category for their role in sending at least US $ 500,000 remittance to Bangladesh through legal channels.
Among 91 new CIPs, 32 persons were selected from business category, and 49 from export category. This year no one has been selected from import category due to non-fulfilment of the conditions set by the government, official said.
Sources said, the government has also dropped the name of some businessmen and Industrialists proposed by the ministries concerned for CIP list as the persons were found to have defaulted on bank loan, tax and bill payments.
The persons who has been selected as CIP from non-resident category were: Dr M G Moula Mia (living in UK) of Moulvi Bazar, Nazim Abedin Chowdhury (USA) of Dhaka, Golam Kabir Bhuiyan (Oman) of Dhaka, Hedayet Ullah (Oman) of Dhaka, Mohammad Ali (UAE) of Chittagong, Mir Salim Uddin (UAE) of Chittagong, Liaqat Ali (Qatar) of Dhaka, Kazi Sarwar Habib (Japan) of Dhaka, M N Alam (UAE) of Chittagong and Abdul Halim (UK) of Dhaka. Those listed from business group included AmChem president Aftabul Islam, former FBCCI president Annisul Huque, former vice president Abu Alam Chowdhury, BCI president Shahedul Islam, BTMA president Abdul Hai Sarkar and BKMEA president Fazlul Huque.
New CIP from export category included chairman of F R Jute mills Sharif Fazur Rahman, chairman HRC syndicate Sayed Hossain Chowdhury, chairman Sinha industries Anisur Rahman Sinha, MD of agricultural marketing major general( retd) Amzad khan Chowdhury and CEO of Beximco Pharma Nazmul Hasan, MD of Sharif Melamine Razzab Sharif, chairman KDS group Khalilur Rahman, Director Bengal Plastic Jashim Uddin, MD of Munnu Ceramic Begum Afroza Khan, and chairman GK group Jahagir Alam Khan.
6-7-2010 the independent
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ANIS ALAMGIR
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