Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation

One of Industrial unit established by Private Entrepreneur with the support services of BSCIC

Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (বিসিক) (BSCIC) provides support services to small, rural, and cottage industry in Bangladesh in the small and cottage industries sector. It was created through an Act of Parliament in 1957 which was later amended in 1992. BSCIC has country-wide institution network to provide door step services for entrepreneurs. Head Office of BSCIC is located at 137-138, Motijheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[1][2]

Definition

• Small Industry (Manufacturing): Small Industry means an industry in which the value/replacement cost of durable resources other than land and factory buildings is in between (.05 to 15 million) taka and employment generation is not more than 50 persons.
• Cottage Industry (Manufacturing): Cottage Industry means family an industry in which members are engaged part-time or full-time in production and service-oriented activities.
• Medium Industry (Manufacturing): Medium Industry means an industry in which the value/replacement cost of durable resources other than land and factory buildings is between 15 million and 200 million taka and employment generation is not more than 150 persons .^[3]

Functions

BSCIC, Chittagong Regional Office

BSCIC provides medium and long term loans to small industries, either directly, or through consortium of commercial banks. BSCIC also provides assistance in all other matters relating to development and expansion of small and cottage industries (SCI). The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation (BSCIC) is the official body which monitors the development of self-employment, cottage industries and small enterprises. It produces statistics on the types of enterprises, their activities and the number of people employed.^[4]

Its major functions are:^[1]

• Promotion and registration of small and cottage industries
• Conducting advisory and industrial promotion services including training of entrepreneurs
• Skill development for artisans and craftsmen
• Creation of jobs for SCIs
• Construction and development of industrial estates with necessary infrastructural facilities for SCI
• Development of linkages between SCIs and large and medium-sized industries.
• Online Service for registration of Industry, Application for Industrial plots, Application for Training facilities will be provide very soon.

Current status

BSCIC has developed a total of 74 industrial estates throughout the country to foster the growth of SCIs in a balanced manner and also construction works for a number of estates including special type like Tannery, API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) and Garments Park are under execution.^[5]

References

1. Transcript of The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1990 Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
2. "Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
3. Definition of Small Industries in Various Countries
4. Monitoring Urban Poverty at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Archived November 25, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
5. BSCIC Document

• Abdus sattar,Member ICT Cell, BSCIC, Dhaka

Footnotes

1 BSCIC_ACT http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/pdf_part.php?act_name=&vol=&id=274

External links

• The BSCIC Website
• Reza, Masud (2012). "Cottage Industry". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
• Rahman, AHM Habibur (2012). "Entrepreneurship". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
• Investment opportunities in Bangladesh
• Public-Private Dialogue Case Study: Bangladesh
• The New Age reports on BSCIC