DHAKA, Aug 29, 2021 (BSS) - Nine more services have been added to
the One Stop Service (OSS) portal of Bangladesh Investment Development
Authority (BIDA) in a bid to provide services to the local and foreign
investors through online.

   These services have been added following signing of Memorandum of
Understandings (MoUs) between BIDA and five other organizations.

   The MoU signing ceremony was held at the office of BIDA in the
city's Agargaon area in presence of BIDA executive chairman Sirazul
Islam.

   The organizations with whom BIDA signed agreements are the
Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), Foreign Investors
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Eastern Bank Limited,
Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh Limited and Islami Bank Bangladesh
Limited, said a press release.

   The CCCI and FICCI will provide membership certificates to the
investors as well as renew their membership apart from giving
certificates of origin.

   The three banks -- Eastern Bank Limited, Standard Chartered Bank
Bangladesh Limited and Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited -- will provide
the scope for opening up bank accounts through online to the investors
through BIDA.

   Speaking on the occasion, BIDA Executive Chairman Sirazul Islam
said that with the latest MoUs, BIDA has so far signed MoUs with 30
organizations through which some 51 services of 16 entities have been
brought under OSS.

   With the introduction of OSS in 2019, it has been possible to
provide some 25,000 services to the investors through online.

   BIDA Director General Nikhil Kumar Das, Director Jiban Krishna Saha
Roy, CCCI President Mahbubul Alam, FICCI President Rupali Chowdhury,
MCCI President Barrister Nihad Kabir, Eastern Bank Limited Deputy
Managing Director Ahmed Shahin, Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited Deputy
Managing Director JQM Habibullah, and Standard Chartered Bank
Bangladesh Limited CEO Enamul Haque Bijoy spoke, among others, on the
occasion.