Bangladesh's Jamdani textiles, Dhakai Jamdani, Bangladesh's finest muslin textiles is set to be registered as the country's first Geographical Indication (GI) product this month, a media report has stated. This was disclosed by senior secretary of the Industries Ministry M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan while addressing the 56th annual meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva.

The Department of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (DPDT) that comes under the Industries Ministry will provide the registration for Jamdani. Bhuiyan revealed that the government attaches highest importance to preserving intellectual property for ensuring knowledge-based industrialisation. Bhuiyan, who led a two-member Bangladeshi delegation to the WIPO meeting, said that Bangladesh, in association with the WIPO, has already implemented the Industrial Property Rights project with a view to preserve, develop and register intellectual property. The historic production of Jamdani was patronised by imperial warrants of the Mughal emperors. The term Jamdani is a Persian word derived from 'Jam' meaning flower and Dani, a vase or a container.