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151 businesses
Light manufacturing & workshopRecovering metals from discarded phones, televisions, fridges and computers. The Hazardous Waste (E-waste) Management Rules 2021 make Department of Environment registration and clearance compulsory; operating without it carries up to two years in prison or a Tk 200,000 fine or both.
Digital & B2B servicesStoring, packing and delivering online sellers' parcels and collecting the cash. Couriers charge Tk 55-190 a parcel, and a marketplace must pay its seller within 10 days of receiving the money.
Digital & B2B servicesWriting for others for money. The capital is close to zero: a computer, a Tk 500 internet line and electricity. But writing job postings fell 21 percent within eight months of AI arriving, and demand is down 20-50 percent.
Digital & B2B servicesBuilding mobile apps to order. The capital is a computer, internet and electricity, plus a one-time USD 25 on Google Play and USD 99 a year on Apple. The cash incentive is 2.50 percent for an individual and 6 percent for a firm.
Digital & B2B servicesGetting a client's website higher in Google. The capital is a computer, a Tk 500 internet line and electricity. Most of the money comes in dollars, and the cash incentive for an individual freelancer is now 2.50 percent, not the 4 percent everyone quotes.
Digital & B2B servicesWriting land deeds at the sub-registry office. It needs a District Registrar's sanad: Tk 1,000 to get, Tk 250 a year to renew. The scheduled fee is Tk 10-15 per 300 words; TIB found Tk 500-5,000 is what clients actually pay.
Digital & B2B servicesMeasuring land with chain and tape or with instruments, and matching the map against what is actually held. The paperwork now has fixed government prices: a mouza map is Tk 630 and a khatian online is Tk 100. The amin's own fee has no official rate.
Retail & wholesaleRetailing toys and gift items. In September 2026 online toy prices ran from Tk 58 to Tk 3,815. Imported toys carry 25 percent customs duty, and most of the year's selling happens in the few weeks around Eid and Pohela Boishakh.
Retail & wholesaleA shop selling imported cat and dog food, litter and accessories. Dry food runs Tk 487 to Tk 1,900 a kg (21-09-2026). Customs duty on pet food is 25%, and demand is still mostly confined to Dhaka.
Retail & wholesaleA retail shop selling cable, switches, sockets, holders, lamps and fans. Fifty of the 315 products on BSTI's mandatory certification list are electrical, and selling uncertified cable brings a fine and a sealed shop.
Retail & wholesaleA retail shop selling paint, cement, rod, pipe, sanitary ware and tools. On 12-03-2026 a 50 kg bag of cement was Tk 475-520 and 60-grade rod Tk 87,000-88,500 a tonne, and these prices move week to week.
Home & local servicesEmptying septic tanks and clearing drains. One Dhaka firm puts its starting price near Tk 7,000. But people die doing this work, from the gas, inside the tank.
Home & local servicesWashing, ironing and returning clothes, with pickup and delivery. In Dhaka one shirt washed and ironed runs Tk 60 to Tk 155, and ironing alone Tk 15.
Home & local servicesOrganising weddings, holud nights and receptions. Stage decoration budgets run from Tk 15,000 to over Tk 80,000, and the money comes 50 percent at booking and 50 percent on the day.
Home & local servicesA centre teaching short computer courses. Course fees run Tk 3,000-10,000 a trainee, but issuing a recognised certificate needs BTEB affiliation and Tk 450 per trainee paid to the board.
Home & local servicesA private primary school up to grade five. Registration fee Tk 8,000-15,000, a fixed deposit of Tk 25,000-100,000 in the reserved fund, and registration valid for five years.
Home & local servicesA dental chamber or clinic. It cannot lawfully be run without a BDS degree and BMDC registration: practising without registration carries up to 3 years in prison or a Tk 1 lakh fine.
Home & local servicesBuying diesel gensets and hiring them out by the hour, day or month. A 100 kVA set listed at Tk 795,000 in September 2026, and with diesel at Tk 135 a litre the fuel alone costs about Tk 42 a unit.
Home & local servicesInstalling rooftop and ground solar. In September 2026 a grid-tied 10 kW plant listed at Tk 449,000-700,000, and net metering now allows a system up to the consumer's full sanctioned load.
Light manufacturing & workshopPrinting PVC banners, panaflex and stickers on a digital printer and building LED signboards. Published Dhaka rates run Tk 18 a square foot for a PVC banner, Tk 380 for a panaflex sign and Tk 1,470 for an LED sign; the real capital is the printer, at Tk 340,000 to Tk 1,250,000.
Light manufacturing & workshopMelting scrap aluminium or buying sheet and spinning it into pots, pans and karai. Ordinary cooking pots are not on BSTI's list of 315 mandatory products, but domestic pressure cookers are (BDS 1752:2006).
Light manufacturing & workshopBringing weak lead-acid batteries back with electrolyte correction and slow charging. Breaking batteries open and smelting the lead is a completely different trade - an offence without Department of Environment clearance, and only 7 of about 1,100 such operations in the country hold one.
Food processingA winter footpath stall selling vapa, chitoi and patishapta. Chitoi Tk 5-10, vapa Tk 10-20; a stall sells 250-800 pitha a day, but the trade only runs three or four months a year.
Agriculture & farmingCooking gas and organic fertiliser out of cow dung. This is not an income business but a cost-saving one: the plant costs Tk 28,000-50,000 and saves about Tk 4,000 a month in fuel plus Tk 2,000-2,500 from selling the surplus fertiliser.
