Specific road map to be framed to make investment summit fully successful: BIDA

A specific roadmap will be framed with a timeframe of 18 months to 24 months to make the Bangladesh Investment Summit 2025 fully successful.

Head of Business Development of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) Nahian Rahman Rochi disclosed this at a press conference at Hotel Intercontinental on Thursday on the final day of the investment summit.

He informed that during the follow-up operations, the investors would be urged to divulge what additional measures would be needed to give a shape to their proposed investments and the possible ways to resolve their problems.

BIDA Executive Member Shah Mohammad Mahbub and BEZA Director General Doyananda Debnath were present, among others, on the occasion.

Nahian said that during the summit, the investors were given a thorough idea about the investment mission and vision of Bangladesh as well as its culture.

He said that as per the ‘FDI Heatmap’ four separate sessions on digital economy, apparel and textiles, agriculture and agro processing and healthcare were held today alongside some breakout sessions.

During those sessions, the foreign investors were suggested for making their potential investments in different sectors side by side there were matchmaking sessions with the local investors.

“It aims to create a pipeline of investment with tagging the investors,” he said, adding that a total of around 450 foreign investors took part in the investment summit.

Apart from the investment deals of Hanger Group and ShopUp, many have made their commitments for making investments.

Nahian said that the investors are now raising much lesser problems towards investments while the barriers have also been minimized or reduced. “You’ve already noticed that we’ve resolved the problem with the Korean EPZ,” he added. 

BIDA Executive Member Shah Mohammad Mahbub informed that this edition of the investment summit was different from the last ones as previously those were limited only with the meetings and seminars. 

But, this time, there were more scope for B2B, B2G meetings alongside scope for engaging with the political party leaders.
He said that the investors have discussed with them on the country’s trade and commerce, investment potentials, and challenges.