Bangladesh achieves silent revolution in automobile industry

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Country’s automobile industries have nowadays raised the ray of hope as various types of motors parts, even bodies of buses and trucks are being produced in the country making a silent revolution.

Meanwhile, several hundreds of industries for engine parts, motor parts and automobiles have been established at different places including Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna and Jessore. Necessary equipment are being produced and supplied to different places in the country from those industries to mitigate the local demands.

Experts said, Bangladesh would rely on India for small and middle size spare parts few years ago. But now, there is no such dependability. Most of the motor-parts are now being manufactured in the country, which has made a silent revolution in the sector.

Once, the potential small industries of the country faced trouble due to huge rush of Indian goods especially motor parts through legal and illegal routes of the borders. But now, the industries have turned around due to fanatic efforts, efficiency and commitments of the country’s workers.

Automobile Engineering Owners Association sources said, such automobile workshops and mini industries of Dhaka, Chattogram, Jessore and Khulna have been created employment facilities for over 1 lakh people. Now many machines including stone crashers are exported to India and other countries each month from here, which helps to earn a good amount of foreign revenues.

During a recent visit to eastern zone of Jessore, this correspondent found that over 500 small and big shape industries for engine and spare parts of different vehicles have been established where workers were seen busy to manufacturing different products round the clock. Some of them were making bodies of heavy transports like buses, trucks and cars.

While talking, Md Shahin Kabir, General Secretary of Jessore Workshop Owners Association told Daily Industry that, he has a workshop at Bokchar area, where bodies of buses and trucks are manufactured. Earlier, he had been served as a labourer at a workshop for around 15 years. Now, he has turned into an owner of a workshop. Time has helped to change his fate.

“I think, it is not only my own development. It is development of country and its economy. Now various types of bodies for Hino, TATA, Volvo and other automobiles are produced from my workshop,” he said.

Kabir further said, though, a good number of such as workshops are in Dhaka, transport owners feel comfort to produce their vehicles’ bodies from Jessore and Khulna region due to cheaper rates than Dhaka and Chattogram.

Seeking anonymity, a workshop owner said, automobile industries are yet to get recognition as industries in Bangladesh. Some traders and workshop owners in Jessore, Khulna, Chattogram and Dhaka took a unified step to stop influx of motor parts into the country from neighboring country India in illegal means through border routes. Now, we have become success as the trend has come to reduce.

He further said, one Mannan and Jahangir initially started manufacturing the bodies of buses and trucks in Jessore. Now the revolution has come to the sector following their paths.

Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, Secretary General of Jatry Kalyan Samity said, “There is no country in the world, which lonely produces complete buses and trucks. But now, Bangladesh has moved forward. Earlier, only greater size industry was treated as industry. Small and middle shape industries were not recognized as industries. But now, the trend has been changed. If the government and other non-government organizations lend their helping hands, the sector may go more long away in future. It will help to save native currency and improve the native technologies.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said, “We are going to formulate a policy with the aim to develop the country’s automobile sector. A draft of the policy has already been prepared, which is now on cards. It will encourage the native and Indian entrepreneurs to set up more automobile industries in our country.”

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun said, “Young and talent entrepreneurs should come forward to set up more automobile industries in the country to remove their unemployment as there are huge possibilities of this sector. If high standard products are produced in the country, those will be able to earn revenues from foreign markets.”
Source: http://www.dailyindustry.news

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