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Trust owned by the Bangladesh Armed Forces From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sena Kalyan Sangstha (Bengali: সেনা কল্যাণ সংস্থা, lit. 'Army Welfare Foundation') is a trust owned and operated by the Bangladesh Armed Forces. It owns a number of businesses including a travel agency, an electronics and cement factory and ice cream. Major General Md Habib Ullah is the present chairman of Sena Kalyan Sangstha.[1]
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The organization started in 1953 as the Fauji Foundation when Bangladesh was a province of Pakistan.[2] After the independence of Bangladesh, it was renamed to Sena Kalyan Sangstha in 1972.[2] Before shifting the head office to Mohakhali, it was headquartered in Motijheel in a 23-storey building named Sena Kalyan Bhaban. It started a rice mill and a flower mill during the pre-independence era. It also owns companies that includes Savoy Ice cream, Energy Savings Lamp, Habib fan, Citizen Fridge, Elephant cement, television and transformer factory.[3]
In 2016, the trust signed a MOU with Bawani group of Saudi Arabia to export manpower.[4] In 2013, the trust was appointed to construct a ৳3 billion convention center in the southern city Chittagong.[5] In 2015, the trust launched Sena Kalyan Travels and Tours, a travel agency.[6] The trust also owns a Liquefied petroleum gas plant.[7]
In 2015, 7 workers were killed and 50 injured while constructing a warehouse for the trust in Mongla.[8][9] The trust built Mongla Cement Factory with a loan from Pakistan that was secured in 1988.[10] Sena Hotel Developments Limited, which operates Radisson Blu in Bangladesh, is owned by Sena Kalyan Sangstha and Bangladesh Army Welfare Trust.[11]
On 29 August 2021, Bank Asia donated ৳5 million to Sena Kalyan Sangstha.[12] The trust owns KB Petrochemicals Limited jointly with a Middle Eastern company and recently signed an agreement with Eastern Lubricants Blenders Limited, a state owned company.[13]
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Subsidiaries
- Sena Kalyan Constructions & Developments (SKCD)
- Mongla Cement Factory, Bagerhat
- Fauji Flour Mill, Chittagong
- Diamond Food Industries, Chittagong
- Chittagong Flour Mill, Chittagong
- Sena Kalyan Electric Industries, Chittagong
- Sena Kalyan Electronics
- Sena Kalyan Ready Mix Concrete, Mirpur, Dhaka
- Eastern Hosiery Mills, Tongi, Gazipur
- Sena tent and Textile Mills (formerly Enesel Textile Mills), Chittagong
- Sena Kalyan Edible Oil Industries
- Sena Kalyan LPG Bottling Plant
- Sena Filling and CNG Station
- Sena Kalyan Insurance Company Limited
- SKS Trading House
- Sena Kalyan Bhaban, Motijheel
- Amin Mohiuddin Foundation Building
- Sena Commercial Complex, Dhaka-Tongi Road
- Anannya Shopping Complex, Baridhara DOHS
- Sena Kalyan Sangstha Tower, Mohakhali
- Sena Kalyan Business Mart, Tejgaon
- Sena Kalyan Trade Center, Agrabad, Chittagong
- SKS Convention Hall
- Sena Kalyan Travels and Tours[6]
- Sena Kalyan Overseas Employment Services Limited[14]
- Power Cell
- CPC
- E&MMA Cell
- SK Insurance Company LTD[15]
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