Six more social businesses get green light
With the inception of the Social Business Design Lab of
Grameen Bank in January 2013, a massive 1260 projects have been approved for
investments, by the entrepreneurship wing of Dr Yunus run microfinance institution.
Most of them are claimed to be already under operation.
To update the statistics, six new local entrepreneurs made
their marks at the conclusion of the 92nd Social Business Design Lab
with over 150 participants in front of local as
well as international
audience. The startups were handicraft, beauty parlor for skin care, farm producing meat and eggs, grocery store and baansh house.
well as international
audience. The startups were handicraft, beauty parlor for skin care, farm producing meat and eggs, grocery store and baansh house.
To inspire these startups more, the executive director of
CPD made a separate statement to shift public attention by the whisker from the
export oriented sector towards incentives to these. He insisted that there is
slim scope for increased trade liberalization to support small local industries.
This was commented on the upcoming Fifth year plan 2016-2020.
With slowly improving political situation since earlier this
year, it’s refreshing to see more startups in the country. Along with that, the
few changes that were made to agriculture, industrial, etc can be seen in the
news link below.
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