BIDA Investment Summit: NCP highlights $15b FDI by 2035

In the 'Bangladesh Investment Summit 2025', the National Citizen Party (NCP), a political party in Bangladesh initiated by the Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, has highlighted inflow of US$15 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by 2035 before investors.

"We have plan to transform Bangladesh into a globally competitive, innovation-driven, and sustainable economy by fostering a business-friendly environment, upholding Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, and attracting strategic investments," Chief Coordinator of NCP Muhammad Nasiruddin Patwary told BSS.

He said NCP is focusing on creating a business-friendly environment with a view to make a developed Bangladesh.

The chief coordinator laid emphasis on infrastructure and environmental sustainability through smart cities and AI traffic system, net-zero or green urban building, 30% renewable energy by 2035, automated brick kiln, circular economy, waste to energy, focus on electronic vehicles and hydrogen based vehicles and carbon tax & rooftop solar expansion.

He said the party wants to modernise financial and capital market through ESG compliance mandatory for DSE listings, short-selling, REITs, gold, and derivatives trading, trading platform for startups, foreign portfolio access via digital platforms, CBDC in financial ecosystem, reduced black money circulation, $1 billion Startup fund, SME loans & global B2B marketplace, digital credit scoring, fintech development, green banking and reducing NPL and bringing down to below 10%.