As of now, development work for the establishment of 28 economic zones is underway. And four government-owned zones -- the BSMSN,
The government is giving priority to develop economic zones on khas or state-owned fallow lands to reduce pressure on the public exchequer in acquiring land from individual owners, according to the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza).
The coast of Mirsharai, an upazila in the southeast division of Chattogram, wakes up in the morning to the sounds of under-construction factories, and machines of several newly-built plants on a vast part of the region.