The Bangladesh-NEI Trade Secretariat

A joint BEI-SEDF Northeast India Trade Secretariat has been set up with support from the SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF) at the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) to serve as a platform to facilitate and promote trade between Northeast India and Bangladesh.

Key functions of the Joint BEI-SEDF NEI Secretariat are:

1. Serve as an information clearinghouse
2. Provide logistic support to project researchers, advisors, and Core Group members, and
3. Facilitate central co-coordination between the project activities and core group members.

The Secretariat will facilitate information dissemination through a quarterly newsletter, website, and a NEI-Bangladesh resource library. The library will be housed at the SME Knowledge Center at the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries and will be open to all. The Secretariat will organize regular seminars, workshops and discussion on trade related issues of concern between NEI and Bangladesh.

The Secretariat is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The address of the Secretariat is: BEI-SEDF NEI Secretariat, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, House 20, Road 5, Gulshan 1, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. The secretariat can be reached by email at bei@bol-online.com and by phone at +88 02 989 2662-3, or by fax at +88 02 9888583.

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