Bangladesh Foreign Secretary (FS) Masud Bin Momen recently maintained the planned connectivity Matarbari seaport along with Mongla, Payra and Chittagong with Nepal, India, Bhutan and the ASEAN can help the country achieve 10 per cent growth and help become a developed nation by 2041.
This is as per reports, according to which the Foreign Secretary maintained this while addressing a round table titled ‘From the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal: New Possibilities in the Bangladesh, Japan, India Trilateral Partnership’.
The event was organised by the Center for Peace Studies (CPS) of South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) even as South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) Executive Director and Dhaka University (DU) Economics Professor Dr. Selim Raihan presented a study on the impact of Matarbari.
The study has underlined Bangladesh’s GDP growth will increase by 1.14 per cent even as nearly a million jobs will be created once the Matarbari Deep Sea Port becomes operational.