Desk Report
Publish: 06 Feb 2022, 10:31 pm
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi formally inaugurated the DBID system || Photo: Collected
The government today launched the
Digital Business Identification (DBID) system for the e-commerce businesses in
the country as all kinds of online business entities like websites, Facebook
pages, and apps from now on would have to take registration in such system.
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi
formally inaugurated the DBID system at his Ministry at Bangladesh Secretariat
today after chairing an emergency inter-ministerial meeting to review the
overall condition of the digital e-commerce business.
Prime Minister's Private Industry
and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman, State Minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed
Palak and concerned businessmen attended the meeting. A total of 11 e-commerce
firms were given registration at the programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Tipu
said although some e-commerce firms were involved in cheating, but there are
still thousands of e-commerce firms which are doing good businesses. "DBID
system has been introduced so that such good e-commerce firms are recognized
and they can do much better,"
Mentioning that all the
e-commerce firms in the country would be brought under the same platform
through this DBID system, he said adding that the e-commerce business would be
operated in the country in future through this nice system.
Tipu said providing DBID to an
e-commerce firm means giving them proper documents while necessary arrangements
would be made so that these firms could get TINs and bank loans.
He said with the introduction of
DBID, irregularities and forgery would be reduced to a great extent in the
e-commerce business, but the concerned consumers would have to be more aware in
this regard.
The commerce minister said that
the amount of the clients stuck with the e-commerce firms, which are involved
in cheating, would be repaid to the consumers in consultation with the Law
Minister after addressing some legal issues.
Prime Minister's Adviser Salman F
Rahman informed that this DBID platform would facilitate the small and women
entrepreneurs. He said that an inter-ministerial meeting would be held so that
such entrepreneurs do not face any difficulty in getting TINs, trade licenses,
opening up bank accounts and getting bank loans.
State Minister for ICT Junaid
Ahmed Palak said that although misunderstanding was created to some extent in
the e-commerce business, but it would be resolved to a large extent with the
launching of the DBID.
He also hoped that this DBID
system would give the online business a strong and reliable foundation.
Palak informed that four
important steps are ongoing on behalf of the government to address the
anomalies in the digital business while DBID is the effective first step of
that.
He said a central complaint
management system server would be launched later to address the complaints of
this sector. Besides, central liquidity tracking Programme (CLTP) would be
launched to ascertain the actual number of transactions and the volume of
traded products in the e-commerce sector.
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