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Farm, SME get priority in BB’s 5-year plan
Staff Correspondent
Reaching out baking services to commoners across the country to give them maximum benefits of financial activities will be a key component of the Bangladesh Bank’s vision for the next five years.
The motto of ‘financial inclusion’ of the masses through increasing disbursement of farm loans and promotion of small and medium will be the core theme of the central bank’s five-year strategic plan now under preparation.
‘We want to establish a strong, dynamic and credible central bank. Apart from its traditional function, we want to serve the people in the best possible manner for giving them fruits of economic development,’ Murshid Kuli Khan, a deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, said briefing journalists about the plan.
Food security of the people and generation of more income opportunities through jobs and self-employment would be possible if the goals to be set under the strategic plan can be attained, he told a questioner about the key objectives of the plan.
The five-year strategic plan, envisioned by the present central bank governor, Atiur Rahman, also development economist, is expected to be prepared and made public in the first half of January 2010.
The central bank organised a two-day workshop titled ‘Strategic Planning and Management Strengthening Workshop’ in Dhaka on November 13-14 and received inputs for preparation of the strategic plan.
Explaining the theme of financial inclusion, the deputy governor mentioned that the Bangladesh Bank might promote ‘one upazila, one product’ concept to encourage entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises to take ventures based on specialisation of knowledge and skill in each locality and region.
‘Guava of southern region or mango of Rajshahi may be considered for supporting the projects. The central bank will play the role of a guardian in encouraging commercial banks to act accordingly,’ said Khan.
