Bangladesh Krishi Bank on Sunday signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank to take Tk 2 crore from the central bank to give the capital’s slum-dwellers loans for initiating income generation venture after returning to their respective villages. BB executive director M Mahfuzur Rahman and BKB managing director Abdus Salam signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides at the central bank headquarters in the capital.
The central bank will initially give the BKB Tk 2 crore for its ‘Ghore Fera Kormo Suchi’ (go back home project).
BB governor Atiur Rahman and top officials of the BB and the BKB were present in the signing ceremony.
Addressing the occasion, Atiur said the central bank would give more fund to the BKB if the specialised bank uses the fund properly.
Mahfuzur said the central bank was offering the fund to take back the urban poor to their homes under
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the ‘Ghore Fera Kormo Suchi’ of the government.
The central bank is providing BKB the money from its housing fund at 2 per cent rate of interest when the borrowers will get the fund with 6 per cent interest rate from the BKB.
Under the programme, the eligible borrowers can get loan between Tk 20,000 and Tk 40,000 for income generating projects and Tk 50,000 to build house.
Introduced in 2010, the government so far allocated Tk 10 crore for the project to help slum-dwellers to go back home and employ themselves.
-With New Age input
