Jashim Uddin elected FBCCI president
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DHAKA, May 9, 2021 (BSS) – Jashim Uddin, vice-president of Bengal Group, has been elected as the new president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) for the 2021-23 term.
Election Board Chairman Professor Ashraf Ali announced the results today.
Mostofa Azad Chowdhury Babu, a former vice-president of the federation and former president of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has become the senior vice-president of the new FBCCI board.
MA Momen of Ink Manufacturers Association, Habib Ullah Dawn, a former president of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association or BARVIDA, and Amin Helali of Printing Industry Association have been elected vice-presidents from the Association Group of the federation.
BARVIDA for special arrangement at BRTA for vehicle registration
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DHAKA, May 6, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (BARVIDA) has placed a demand to the government to introduce special arrangements for registration of vehicles at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) amid the ongoing countrywide lockdown to facilitate safe mobility.
The BARVIDA in a press release today said that its members were getting their car released from ports since the seaports, customs houses and banks has remained open despite the countrywide lockdown to rein in the spread of COVID-19.
Since the BRTA remained closed during the lockdown, the release said the buyers cannot complete registration of their vehicles and
Pandemic gives a boost to ambulance business
Businesses invested more in ambulance import last year after the Covid-19 outbreak. The photo was taken in front of Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital in Dhaka recently. Photo: Anisur Rahman
The number of ambulances hitting the streets is on the rise as businesses are spending more on import amid an increase in its demand during the ongoing pandemic.
Some 788 units of ambulances got registered in 2020, up 18 per cent year-on-year, according to data from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). Businesses invested more in ambulance import last year after the Covid-19 outbreak, when the demand for the vehicle started increasing, said Mohammad Shahidul Islam, secretary general of the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (Barvida).
Pandemic wreaks havoc on car sales
Additional road tax also to blame
Passenger vehicle sales fell by around 26 per cent in 2020 compared to the previous year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and imposition of additional road tax.
Passenger car sales were at its lowest in the past seven years as a total of 12,403 units were sold in 2020 while it was 14,681 units in 2014.
Sales started rising in 2014 and continued to increase until 2019, according to data from the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).
However, the Covid-19 fallout and imposition of additional road tax negatively affected the industry, market players said. The government decided to increase advanced income tax, commonly known as road tax, by 67 per cent for the current fiscal year.
BARVIDA donates ambulance to PMâs humanitarian programme
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DHAKA, Dec 22, 2020 (BSS) â Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (BARVIDA) has donated an ambulance to the Prime Ministerâs humanitarian programme.
BARVIDA leaders handed over the ambulance to Prime Ministerâs Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus at a function at the Prime Ministerâs Office (PMO) here today, said a BARVIDA press release.
BARVIDA President Abdul Haque, Secretary General Mohammed Shahidul Islam, Vice-President Md Saiful Islam (Somrat) and Treasurer Mohammad Anisur Rahman were present at the function.
As per the Prime Ministerâs directive, the ambulance was, later, allocated to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and Hospital while director of the hospital Professor Dr Mir Jamal Uddin received the ambulance at the same function, the release said.