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Pre Feasibility Study Report For IT Park at KUET, Khulna December 2016 Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Information & Communication Technology Division ICT Tower, Agargaon, Dhaka. www.bhtpa.gov.bd Executive Summary To achieve sustainable development goal and become middle income country by 2021 and developed country by 2041, the present Govt. has declared Digital Bangladesh “Vision 2021” on 12th December 2008. The main objectives of Digital Bangladesh are to create Employement Opportunities, conducive business environment and Socio Economic development. To improve the economic condition and increase employment opportuniies IT/ITES is now thrust sector. The demand of IT/IT enabled services is increasing throughout the world and the investors around the world needs a competitive cost of production. Bangladesh has a sizeable unemployed and educated young population with low labour cost of production which can be utilized in this sector with proper training and guidance. GOB needs to create skilled manpower through developing world-class business environment conducive business environment for IT/ITES to attract potential foreign and local entrepreneurs for investing in Bangladesh. There is also an advantage of time zone. Bangladesh labour force can do the work ordered from Western countries overnight and have the job done before business hours begin the next day. Bangladesh has one of the most attractive population demography in the world –relatively high young population base as over 34% are in age group of 15-34 years ; which is favorable for IT-BPO industry. Analyst projections reveal that this number is further slated to go up. This corresponds to a young working population of over 53 million people- large enough to man the fledging IT /ITES industry for years while keeping the costs low. For creating employment opportunity in the IT sector it was felt necessary to develop infrastructures which will create an environment for innovative companies and increase foreign and local investment. By this time more than 1400 software and IT companies have been registered. Through this IT companies approximately $800 are exporting to outside the country. The freelancers activities and number of freelancer are gradually increasing effectively and efficiently. They are working with local and foreign clients. There are more than 10,000 freelancer working in Bangladesh but they are not registered (source BASIS) therefore their income are not penetrating in total revenue. However, they can contribute to develop socio econoic condition. Chapter 01: Background Background Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority: The Government of Bangladesh has declared Vision 2021 with a target to make Bangladesh as a middle income country using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and develop favorable business environment for innovative companies. Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority is the official body of Bangladesh government to boost up Hi-Tech industries in Bangladesh .To fasten up the economic development of the country, Bangladesh Hi-Tech park Authority (BHTPA) was established in 2010 by an act under ICT Division.The purpose of the act is to the establishedment of the Bangladesh HI-Tech Park Authority to make provision for the establishment and expansion of Hi–Tech industry for creation, management, operation and development of Hi-Tech Park throughout the country. It is an autonomous body comprising 76 personnel; Managing Director (MD) is the chief Executive of the Authority. There is an Executive Committee (EC) headed by the State Minister of ICT Division for posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry to look after the day to day policy matter of the Authority. Inspite of that, a Governing Board, headed by the Honorable Prime Miniser is also overviews, the overall policy matters of the Authority. The first state level Hi-Tech park named Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City is being developed by Public Private Partnership (PPP) model, a project name Support to Development of Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park (other hi-tech park) Project which is funded by world bank to provide all basic infrastructure at kalialoir Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City. Apart from this Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park, Jessore, Janata Tower Software Technology Park, Sylhet Electronic City, Mohakhali IT Park, Rajshahi Barendra Silicon City, 12 IT Parks in different Districts & Divisions, 8 Sheikh kamal IT Training and Incubation Center are the milestone for developing IT/ITES sectors. 12 IT Parks Project Bangladesh govt. has decided to establish 12 IT Parks in 12 districts and divisions to create facilities for IT Professionals. There are lot of prestigious educational institute and IT companies outside of Dhaka city. The students who pass out from those institute maximum of them become unemployed due to scarcity of vacant job, therefore there socially unaccepted, and budded to the nation. The propose IT parks will be milestone for creating employment opportunity skill development and develop socio economic condition. In that park provision will be made for start-up companies and mentoring and guidance facilities will be given to them and facility will be create for new entrepreneur. Location of the project: SL No Division District Upazila 1 2 3 4 1 Dhaka Gopalgonj Sadar 2 Dhaka Mymensingh Sadar 3 Dhaka Jamalpur Sadar 4 Dhaka Dhaka Keraniganj 5 Chittagong Comilla Sadar South 6 Chittagong Chittagong Bandar 7 Chittagong Cox's bazar Ramu 8 Rangpur Rangpur Sadar 9 Rajshahi Natore Singra 10 Sylhet Sylhet Companiganj 11 Barisal Barisal Sadar 12 Khulna Khulna KUET Pre Feasibility study Committee: Feasibility study in one of the prior condition of any project when the budget of that project will be more than 25 crore. The budget of 12 IT parks project is more than 25 crore therefore it is necessary to conduct feasibility study. But due to time and budget constraint a decision has been taken from ICT Division to form a committee for Pre Feasibility study. The committee formation is given below: SL Committee Detail Designatio No n 1. Managing Director, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority. Convenor 2. Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology Member 3. Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division Member (IMED) 4. Local Government & Engineering Division (LGED) Member 5. Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Member 6. Department of Environment Member 7. Eng. Mohammod Atiqul Islam, Assistant Engineer (civil) Member Secrecatry Roles of Committee a) Collection the information of present infrastructure of industrial Zone, Entrepreneur, availability of skilled manpower, market demand, communication system, condition of electricity, gas, water, fiber optical connectivity, telephone system etc and justify whether it will be feasible or not for development of IT Parks. b) Physical verification and inspection of the proposed land by the Committee. Position of the land ownership condition surrounding area, mouja map, market demand, lay out of the proposed land, surrounding infrastructure communication system present position and availability of gas, electricity connection etc are observed and provide suggestion. c) Committee will discuss with local administration, local elite persons, concern district office personnel’s, all the representative of different related organization, local chairman, media partners and prepare feasibility study of the proposed land. d) Other related matters Procedure of pre feasibility study: Pre feasibility study committee inspected the primarily selected land and discussed with Assistant Commissioner (Land), Surveyor and kanongo. Additional Deputy Commissiner (ADC) and other elected political persons were present. Collected all necessary data and information from primary and secondary sources, thread bear discussion with all stack holders, compare with of the projects and programs. Brief Scope of work and Approach I. A seminar was conducted at the conference room of Deputy Commissiner (DC) office, Khulna with the presence of Local Administrative Representative of chamber of commerce, Representative of different bodies, BTCL, BTRC, Representative of REB, Pollybiddut office, Student and Professor of KUET, Local leaders of IT companies and media. II. Managing Director Hosne Ara Begum ndc of Hi-Tech Park Authority and her team visited proposed land of KUET on 16th November 2016. Vice Chancellor and faculty members were present. III. Meeting with KUET Vice Chancellor and all the faculty Deen, head of the departments and all the members discussed about the importance of IT park, which is embedded the gap between academia and IT Industry. IV. Committee inspected physical condition of the land, landscape, location, types and condition of soil, surrounding infrastructure, present position of road, rail, air connection, gas, water, internet connectivity of KUET. Committee Analyzed market situation, no of departments no of students, demand of students in IT/ITES sectors. V. BHTPA team met with other related Authorities for understanding the potential outlook of the project particularly on the preferences of the client in terms of IT Park, layout and development model. Team also reviewed various reports, data, maps and collected information for comparative information about international best practices in developing similar type of projects in other countries. Limitation of Pre Feasibility Studies: Committee has completed this pre feasibility study with their regular duties. Therefore they could not provide full concentration to prepare this report. There were other official
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