Bank Asia, BB hold training for SME entrepreneurs

Bank Asia Limited, in association with Bangladesh Bank (BB), has organised a monthlong "Entrepreneurship Development Programme" for SME entrepreneurs in Cox's Bazar.

Md Nazrul Islam, additional director for the credit guarantee department of Bangladesh Bank, inaugurated the programme last week, said a press release.

M Eshamul Arephin, head of the Bank Asia Institute for Training & Development, presided over the programme, where Mohammad Jahid Iqbal, joint director of SME and special programmes department at the central bank, Nasim Ahmed, additional district commissioner in Cox's Bazar, and Abu Murshed Chowdhury, president of the Cox's Bazar Chamber of Commerce & Industry, were present.

The training programme is intended to develop new entrepreneurs with the required business skills so that they can contribute to the country's economic growth through facilitating employment generation.

The programme was funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and managed by the Skills for Employment Investment Programme (SEIP) of the SME and Special Programmes Department of the central bank.