Business Desk :
The government of Bangladesh and Republic of Korea on Sunday signed the Record of Discussion (RoD) & Terms of Reference (ToR) for a $9.65 million grant for the project titled “Capacity Building of Statistics Services based on Platform”.
KOICA will grant $9.65 million (approximately Taka 106.63 crore) for the project’s implementation. Md Shahriar Kader Siddiky, Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Park Young-sik, Ambassador of Korea in Bangladesh were present during the signing, reports BSS.
Dr. Shahnaz Arefin, Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division and Md. Anwar Hossain, Additional Secretary, (Asia, JEC and F&F), ERD on behalf of the government of Bangladesh and Taeyoung Kim, Country Director, KOICA signed the RoD and ToR on behalf of the Republic of Korea, said an ERD press release.
Since 1993, KOICA has been playing a vital role in Bangladesh’s socio-economic development, supporting initiatives such as human resource development and the expansion of Information Technology.
