42 businessmen awarded CIP status
42 businessmen awarded CIP status
Industries minister Dilip Barua at a programme in Dhaka on Tuesday awarded the commercially important person status to 42 businesspersons for their outstanding performances in the industrial sector.
Earlier, the government named 42 businessmen
as CIPs-Industrial for
2010 in recognition of their outstanding performances in line with the CIP Policy (Industrial) 2008.
The CIP cardholders will enjoy a number of facilities for one year from the issuance of the identity card. The facilities include priority in reserving seats in Biman, train, bus and other modes of transport for business-related travels, availing letter of introduction from the foreign ministry to get visa easily in case of foreign tours and using VIP Lounge-2 at the airport.
The cardholders, their spouses and children will get priority to cabins in public hospitals. They are also free to enter the Bangladesh secretariat for a year, according to a gazette notification on February 28.
The 42 CIPs have been selected in four categories — ex-officio, large-scale industries, medium-scale industries and small-scale industries.
The highest eighteen persons have been awarded under large-scale industries category while ten for ex-officio, nine for medium-scale category and five for small-scale category. FBCCI president AK Azad, former DCCI president Abul Kashem Khan, ex-Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry president
M Anis-ud-Dowla, Bangladesh Chamber of Industries president Shahedul Islam, Foreign Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industries AM Hamim Rahmat Ullah, Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry president MA Latif, Jatiya Khudra O Kuthir Shilpa Samity president Sheikh Mohammad Abdus Sobhan, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association president Abdul Hai Sarkar, Bangladesh Jute Mills Association president Nazmul Haque and Bangladesh Employers Federation president Rokeya Afzal Rahman have been selected under the ex-officio category. The eighteen persons under large-scale industries category are Square Pharmaceuticals chairman Samson Chowdhury, Berger Paints managing director Begum Rupali Chowdhury, Western Marine Shipyard managing director M Sakhawat Hossain, BRB Cables Industries managing director M Parves Rahman, Jaber and Jobaer Fabrics managing director M Nurul Islam, Aftab Farms chairman Manjurul Islam, Beximco Pharmaceuticals managing director Najmul Hasan, Abdul Momen managing director Abdul Momen, Jeans 2000 managing director M Nasir Uddin, MM Ispahani managing director Mirza Salman Ispahani, Advanced Chemical Industries managing director Arif Dowla, Square Consumer Products managing director Anjan Chowdhury, Badsha Textile managing director M Badsha Mian, Bangladesh Steel Re-rolling Mills managing director Ali Hossain Akbar Ali, Sheltec Private managing director Toufiq M Seraj, KM Rezaul Hasnat, Utah Group of Companies managing director Abdur Razzak Sattar and Envoy Group chairman Kutub Uddin Ahmed. The nine persons under the medium scale industries are Nahid Cotton Mills managing director M Abdul Wahid, Jahintex Industries managing director Khatib Abdul Jahid Mukul, J&J Fabrics and Textile managing director M Ilias, Smart Jeans managing director Majibur Rahman, Building for Future managing director Tanvirul Haque Probal, Far Ceramics chairman Iftekhar Uddin Forhad, Gulshan Spinning Mills managing director M Siraj Uddin Ahmed, Baily Yarn Dying managing director M Masud Jaman and Sonargaon Dying and Printing chairman M Mosharraf Hossain. In the small industrial category, Karim Leathers managing director M Rezaul Karim Ansary, Julia Sweater Composite managing director M Bazlur Rahman, Gomati Textiles Ltd managing director ABM Kaiser, Universal Jeans director Syed Mohammad Tanvir and Basumati Real Estate managing director ZM Golam Nabi have been selected for the CIP status.
