In an effort to expand the e-commerce business in the country and create employment opportunities by making new entrepreneurs in the sector, Bangladesh Government has undertaken an initiative.
“I will do e-commerce, build my own business”, is the name of this new Government initiative.
According to media reports, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal while presenting the proposed budget for 2021-22 in the Parliament on 3 June (Thursday) gave this information even as he added the objective of this project is to develop the skills of new entrepreneurs in e-commerce and create small and medium entrepreneurs in e-commerce in the rural economy of Bangladesh.
The Finance Minister further, reportedly, added that around 3,500 entrepreneurs have already been trained while e-commerce training will be provided to 5,000 new entrepreneurs under the initiative even as steps have also, reportedly, been taken under the Bangladesh Regional Connectivity Project to empower women, through which training is being imparted to women entrepreneurs on cut-flower, agro-processing and ICT skills.