Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged British businesses to make investment in Bangladesh, where foreign investment gets priority.

“For that purpose we have established special economic zones, Hitech Parks, and incubation centres,” she told a British cross party parliamentary delegation, led by Virendra Sharma, during a courtesy meeting at her official residence Ganabhaban.

The other members of the delegation are: Paul Scully, Neil Coyle and Andrew Western.

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Hasina said that should the British investors want Bangladesh would allocate a separate economic zone for them as some other countries have already got their dedicated economic zones.

She mentioned that geographically Bangladesh is ideal for investment as it is well connected with South East Asia and South Asia where more than 300 crore people live.

“It’s a market of 300 crore, and as a result if anyone invest here it would not be a problem to get market for the produced items,” she said.

In this connection, she mentioned that aiming to reduce the procedural time for investment the government has already put some 110 items out of 170 in online.

“Rest of the 60 items will be put online very soon,” she said.

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The British MPs pledged to work closely to take forward the development initiatives of the government for the socioeconomic upliftment.

PM’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman, Ambassador-at-large M Ziauddin and PM's Principal Secretary M Tofazzel Hossain Miah were present.