Industrial park to be set up at Ichakhali char in Mirsarai: Barua

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka

A plan is underway to establish an industrial park at Ichakhali char in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong, industries minister Dilip Barua said on Thursday.

More than 17,000 acres of land would be allocated for developing the park as per the directive of the prime minister, he said while visiting the proposed industrial park site at Mirsarai, said an official release.

Deputy commissioner of Chittagong Foyez Ahmed, Mirsarai upazila chairman M Gias Uddin, officials of Local Government Engineering Department and local dignitaries were present on the occasion.

Barua said local and foreign investors would be encouraged to invest in the proposed industrial park.

The government would take plan to link the industrial park with Chittagong port access road-Sitakunda-Fouzdarhat-Mirsarai-Muhuri Project-Feni, he said adding that the road link would propel the growth of shipbuilding and ship breaking industries.