Zoom-Bangla Desk: The company will develop high-performance rotary wing UAVs for firefighting. Simultaneously, vertical take-off and landing drones suitable for cinematography, mapping and surveillance will be made. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones will be manufactured in Bangladesh. A new company 'Sky Biz' will manufacture this drone. These drones will mainly be exported abroad. An agreement has been signed with Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority for drone factory land. This factory will be inside the Bepja Industrial Estate of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar in Mirsarai Upazila of Chittagong. Sky Biz will invest around Tk 550 crore for this.

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The company hopes to start commercial drone production early next year. They aim to export drones worth 169 million dollars or about 2,300 crore rupees every year. Jaseem Ahmed is behind this initiative of making drones in Bangladesh . He has business in textile and garment accessories sector in Dhaka and Ishwardi EPZ. Jaseem Ahmed has built two companies named Global Levels Bangladesh Limited, a joint venture of Spain-Bangladesh and Jinq Global Textile Bangladesh Limited, a joint venture of China and Bangladesh. He is now investing in the development of modern technology UAVs with the future in mind.

According to him, this initiative represents many dreamers and confident youth. Initially the company will develop high performance rotary wing UAVs for firefighting.

Simultaneously, vertical take-off and landing drones suitable for cinematography, mapping and surveillance will be made. Jaseem Ahmed said, their drones can be mainly used for civilian purposes such as pesticide spraying, firefighting, delivery services and relief distribution and rescue operations. Jasim Ahmed said that in the proposal given to Bepza, the target of manufacturing and exporting 7 thousand 314 drones has been shown. Bepza Executive Director (Public Relations) ASM Anwar Parvez said that they are going to enter into an agreement with Sky Biz to lease the land for setting up the factory.