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List of 49 businessmen finalised for CIP status
14th May, 2008
The government has finalised the names of 49 leading businessmen of the country who would be bestowed the Commercially Important Person (CIP) status for a year on the basis of their export performance and annual business turnover.
Ministry of Commerce began issuing letters to those CIPs from Tuesday informing them about their new status for 2007.
The ministry received the final approval of the Chief Adviser's Office (CAO) last week, a senior commerce ministry official said.
The selection process of CIPs takes quite a long time as it needs clearance certificates from different government entities, he said.
"We have to collect clearance certificate from Bangladesh Bank, home ministry and National Board of Revenue (NBR) to confirm whether those persons are regular taxpayer and are not loan defaulters," he said.
Since 2002, the government could not give CIP status to anybody due to some complexities in existing law regarding CIP selection.
In 2006, the commerce ministry resolved the complexities through amendment of the law. It then invited applications from the leading trade persons to apply for the status.
The selection procedure was eventually completed in the current month.
Of the 49 CIPs, 11 have been selected for 'trade CIP' status by dint of their positions who all were directors of apex chamber body in 2007, while 38 were selected for their export performance.
Product of the export sector included raw jute, jute-made products, leather goods, frozen foods, readymade garments (woven) single and group, agro-based product, dehydrated salt and other fishes, specialised textile, knitwear single and group, ceramic tableware, plastic product, melamine and others.
Trade CIPs for 2007 are -- Mir Nasir Hossain, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) president in 2007, Aftab-ul-Islam, Abul Kashem Ahmed, Md Jahangir Akhand Selim, Md Shamsul Alam, Kamran Tanvirur Rahman, Abdur Rajjak, Khurshid Ali Mollah, Md Akhtaruzzaman Monju, Md Giasuddin Chowdhury (Khokon) and MA Awal -- all FBCCI directors in 2007.
From Miscellaneous category, two persons have been selected. They are Mirza Salman Ispahani, Managing Director (MD) Pahartali Textile and Hosiery Mills, Chittagong, Md Jasim Uddin of JH brothers, Sitakund, Chittagong.
Nine exporters were selected from readymade garments (RMG) knitwear category. They are: Gaohar Siraj Jamil of 4H fashion ltd, Chittagong, Jahur Ahmed of Apex Spinning and Knitting Mills Ltd Dhaka, Sarder Tofazzal Hossain of RL tex ltd, Dhaka, Mohiuddin Faruqui of Multifabs Ltd, Tamal Kanti Sarker of FB fashion (pvt) Ltd, Amir Hamza Sarker of Logos Apparels ltd, Kanij Fatima Rima of Ibrahim Knit garments, Abdul Mazid Mondol of Mondol Group of Industries, Md Jahangir Alam Khan of JK group.
On RMG woven category, six exporters have been selected for CIP status. They are: Anisur Rahman of Sinha Opex Industries Ltd, Md Azizul Islam of Alif Garments ltd, M Anwarul Azim of ABM apparels ltd, Asif Ibrahim of Newage garments ltd, Saiful Islam of Concord Garments ltd, Enamul Huq Khan of Ananto group.
Seven CIPs have been selected from frozen foods exporting sector. They are Md Touhidur Rahman of Fresh foods ltd, Syed Abu Asfar of National seafood industry ltd, Md Rezaul Huq of Modern sea food industries ltd, Kazi Shahed Ahmed of Jemini sea foods ltd, Mia Md Abdus Salam of Salam seafoods ltd, Yesmin Khan of Minhar Fisheries ltd, Shahana Sultana of international shrimps export (pvt) ltd.
Md Saiful Islam of Picard Bangladesh ltd and Firoza Begum of Dhaka footwear ltd have been selected from leather goods export category.
Md Fazlur Rahman of FR jute trading ltd and Md Selim Reza of Reza jute trading have been selected for raw jute export while Md Humayun Kabir of new Dhaka Industries and Kazi Rezaul Hassan of Jem Jute ltd for jute goods export.
On agro-based product, Gobinda Chandra Shaha of Rajdhani Enterprise, Md Shahab Uddin of Green trade house, Gakul Chandra Shaha of Capital enterprise have been selected.
Dehydrated, salted and other fish exporter Prakash Ranjan Das Gupta of Fexinco has been selected for enjoying the status followed by Md Nurul Islam of Jaber and Jubaer Fabrics Ltd for export of specialised textile.
From Knitwear sector 10 persons have been selected for CIP status followed by one from ceramic tableware and one each from plastic goods and melamine exporters.
Afroza Khan Rita of Monno Ceramic Industries has been selected for ceramic table wear followed by Jhontu Kumar Shaha of Plastic Concern (pvt) ltd of Plastic Concern pvt ltd for export of plastic goods and Md Rojjob Sharif of Sharif Melamine for melamine export.
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