Seventy thousand to get employment facilities at hi-tech park

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Nearly 70,000 youths will get employment facilities in the next ten years at the Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park (KHTP). It will be a specialized economic zone and lifeline of the country's IT sector. A world-class business environment will be created for the local and foreign investors in the KHTP. The foundation-laying function of construction of 3-no block of the KHTP here. The government is committed to building the Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park which was undertaken in 1999 during the tenure of present government to build on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. The Hi-Tech Park will be an attractive location for developing the country's IT and IT-enabled services sector especially the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). We are approaching with a duel strategy to attract investments through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and provide state-of-the-art facilities to the Bangladesh based IT/ITES Industry. According to a source, of the 232 acres of land around 98.9 acres would be developed as roads and open areas based on international industry and the remaining areas will be turned into around 14.51 million square feet of space which will be used for commercial, residential and other purposes.

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