Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on September 10 hailed the assurances the chief adviser and the army chief recently made to the businesspeople at a dialogue with them. Terming the assurances timely and convincing, the MCCI in a press statement said the chief adviser’s announcement for formation of Bangladesh Better Business Forum to be chaired by the chief adviser and conducting of a quarterly survey on business confidence in the country will have a lasting favourable impact on the economy.

Urgent measures will be taken to ensure implementation of the chief adviser’s two proposals on a priority basis, hoped the metropolitan chamber saying that such implementation would help achieve the private sector’s desired role. The 3-monthly survey on business confidence could be of great help to monitor and evaluate policy coordination and their implementation, the chamber said.

The MCCI statement also welcomed the Intel chairman’s recent visit to Bangladesh and said it will prove to be a significant milestone for developing the ICT sector in the country. “Dr Craig Barrett’s visit will put Bangladesh firmly on the ICT map and given the requisite policy support by the government, can attract significant investments in computer hard-ware and soft-ware manufacturing, which can provide employment opportunities to hundreds of thousands of people,” it remarked.