Bangladesh Economy

Lutfey Siddiqi: 7 import export oriented orgs will go digital​


To ease import and export, seven out of 19 organizations will be digitized that handle certificates, licenses, and permits (CLP) by January 31, while the Bangladesh Single Window effective from March later this year, said Prof Lutfey Siddiqi, special envoy on international affairs to the chief adviser, on Saturday.


 
@BananaRepublic

Kola bhai,

Under Hasina a lot of Pak and Indians moved their production to BD. We don’t want them going back.

But we do want them back. IND part that is, OK with ex Pak part of the garment business stays with you

Regards

Don’t mind India gaining at China’s expense but not at BD’s expense.

Garments is a low margin cut throat business.

Does India have the supply chain to make it viable?
 
Under Hasina a lot of Pak and Indians moved their production to BD.

We don’t want them going back.
I know personally of the tremendous insecurity among Indian investors, in particular, Bengali Indian investors, at the turn things have taken. The frenzied efforts of Indian media to build more and more mistrust of Bangladesh feeds this insecurity directly.

It also does not help that hot-headed Bangladeshi individuals have started verbal retaliation, and that this resentment and wave of counter-attacks has spread to the diaspora as well. People from the Indian diaspora who do not belong to the crypto-Sanghi lobby have reported the perceptible cooling off of relations with Bangladeshi individuals, families and commercial establishments.
 
@BananaRepublic

Kola bhai,

Under Hasina a lot of Pak and Indians moved their production to BD. We don’t want them going back.

But we do want them back. IND part that is, OK with ex Pak part of the garment business stays with you

Regards
You speak for yourself. That is an airy-fairy wish that has no resonance within the ranks of investors.
 
Don’t mind India gaining at China’s expense but not at BD’s expense.

Garments is a low margin cut throat business.

Does India have the supply chain to make it viable?
Yes, and substantially so.

People forget that when I started my professional career in the mid-70s, Pakistan including East Pakistan was not even a data point on the graph. India enjoyed quotas for exports of RMG and exported enormous quantities to the consuming nations. When Bangladesh got her act together, and started putting down the foundations of the garments industry, the quotas swung to that country, based on their greater need. Tiruppur, a town that most Bangladeshis may not even be aware of, or Coimbatore, familiar to @Nilgiri, are powerhouses by themselves, and can bootstrap back to their earlier powerful position on the supply side of the market.
 
I know personally of the tremendous insecurity among Indian investors, in particular, Bengali Indian investors, at the turn things have taken. The frenzied efforts of Indian media to build more and more mistrust of Bangladesh feeds this insecurity directly.

It also does not help that hot-headed Bangladeshi individuals have started verbal retaliation, and that this resentment and wave of counter-attacks has spread to the diaspora as well. People from the Indian diaspora who do not belong to the crypto-Sanghi lobby have reported the perceptible cooling off of relations with Bangladeshi individuals, families and commercial establishments.

I live in the U.K. and work takes me to US and India a lot.

Unfortunately, a large number of British and American Hindus are thoroughly unpleasant. And actively hateful and joining the far right in demonising Muslims.

So, I am not surprised Bangladeshis have started boycotting Hindu establishments.

The reason I haven’t turned against India is because of my personal experiences in India.

Indians, unlike any other races, I have met - have the ability to take you into their heart.

This is my experience and I think also of Sheikh Hasina’s.

Which explains her, sometimes naive, decision making.

@UKBengali are you actively boycotting Hindu establishments in U.K.
 
Unfortunately, a large number of British and American Hindus are thoroughly unpleasant. And actively hateful and joining the far right in demonising Muslims.
It may sound unbelievable, but these elements are further to the right, and more regressive, if that is at all possible, than their counterparts within India herself.

For example, the vicious counter-attack against complaints of caste discrimination made by Indians not belonging to privileged castes is a step far more extreme than is any longer possible on a sustained basis - isolated incidents apart - within India.

Look also at the hysterical response given by these elements to the Indian Prime Minister, once the ban on his travel was removed due to his elevation to head of government, and the behaviour towards those who continue to write defiantly against the regime.

Since they do not face the mass of public disapproval of their views and values that is a feature of Indian society and Indian politics, they feel entitled to take extreme positions, positions that are so regressive as to give everyone not subscribed to those points of view a shock.
 
So, I am not surprised Bangladeshis have started boycotting Hindu establishments.
Neither am I, but this is a shame, and plays into the hands of the Bangladesh-baiters.

The reason I haven’t turned against India is because of my personal experiences in India.

Indians, unlike any other races, I have met - have the ability to take you into their heart.

This is my experience and I think also of Sheikh Hasina’s.

Which explains her, sometimes naive, decision making.
I have already, elsewhere, pointed people to the Vblog Wild Lens, and specifically to his day-by-day account of 30 days spent travelling in India. You have to see it to understand fully that almost all Indians have nothing against Pakistan at all, by extrapolation to another neighbour Bangladesh, nothing against that country at all. Most Pakistanis, and a segment of Bangladeshis, have no idea about what India represents, or how Indians respond to bigotry and Islamophobia.

This is my experience and I think also of Sheikh Hasina’s.

Which explains her, sometimes naive, decision making.
I think she was psychologically incapable of leading all sections of Bangladesh opinions. She was too traumatised by her family tragedies to hold the entire country together.

are you actively boycotting Hindu establishments in U.K.
Scared of what the answer will be.
 
@Joe Shearer

Dada,

I know personally of the tremendous insecurity among Indian investors, in particular, Bengali Indian investors, at the turn things have taken.

Are there large Indian and even Bengali Indian investors in BD businesses? Mainly garmenting?

Regards
 
@Joe Shearer

Dada,

I know personally of the tremendous insecurity among Indian investors, in particular, Bengali Indian investors, at the turn things have taken.

Are there large Indian and even Bengali Indian investors in BD businesses? Mainly garmenting?

Regards
No. A variety of industries. There is no reason, other than for the investment of capital, that a Bangladeshi venture in ready-made garments should be open to Indian ownership or control.
 
OK. I certainly know lot of businesses are there in FMCG and automobiles- but don't think these are Bengali owned.

Regards
 
OK. I certainly know lot of businesses are there in FMCG and automobiles- but don't think these are Bengali owned.

Regards
Isn't that more or less what I said? No space in garments, all others are open to joint participation, or even exclusively foreign held promoters.
 
@UKBengali are you actively boycotting Hindu establishments in U.K.


No as I do not want to discriminate against any person for what some members of their community may be doing that is harmful to Muslims.

My doctor is Pakistani and dentist is of Indian heritage and have been with them for at least a decade each.
 
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No as I do not want to discriminate against any person for what some members of their community may be doing that is harmful to Muslims.

My doctor is Pakistani and dentist is of Indian heritage and have been with them for at least a decade each.

Indians are the biggest beneficiaries of Eid shopping.

They are hurting that lucrative market by being vile.

Boycott is a tried and tested method - so fully understand why people are resorting to it.
 

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