The government has planned to shift all chemical and plastic factories, electronic goods manufacturing factories, and printing houses from Dhaka for making the city livable, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu told parliament yesterday.

Replying to lawmakers queries, he said, "Many plastic factories and printing houses had been established in Dhaka unplanned and environment unfriendly way. We are planning to shift all these factories and printing houses to Sirajdhikhan upazila in Munshiganj.”

A plastic industrial zone and a printing industrial zone will be built there under Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC), he said.

Setting up of a chemical village at Keraniganj for shifting chemical factories is under way, the minister said, adding that BSCIC was also establishing an electronic goods manufacturing industrial zone at Tangibari in Munshiganj.