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Lafarge Surma Cement Limited has been awarded by the National Board of Revenue for being the highest VAT payer from Sunamganj district during the fiscal 2007-2008.

Finance and Planning Advisor of the Caretaker government A B Mirza Azizul Islam handed over a crest to the company at a function organized in Dhaka on Thursday to honour the highest VAT payers at district level.

It may be mentioned that Lafarge Surma Cement Limited started its full operation at its plant at Chhatak, Sunamgnaj early last year. It has paid Tk. 30 crore 15 lakh to the national exchequer as VAT during the last fiscal.

Lafarge Surma Cement factory at Chhatak is the only dry process fully integrated cement plant in the country. With limestone being brought from its captive mine in Meghalaya by a 17 kilometer over land long belt conveyor, it has been producing Supercrete brand of cement.