Bangladesh Bank on Thursday asked scheduled banks to assign 5 to 10 officials at their district-level branches as mentors to assist entrepreneurs in the information and communications technology sector. To this end, the BB issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all banks asking them to include the skill of the mentors with their official performance.
The central bank has taken the initiative in accordance with the suggestion given by the posts, telecommunications and information technology ministry.
The ministry on April 14 issued a letter to the BB requesting it (the central bank) to take measures in this regard so that the ICT entrepreneurs would receive assistance from banks’ officials.
A BB official told New Age on Thursday that the banks’ officials were usually more conscious about the ICT than the other professionals.
So, the ministry requested the central bank to appoint mentors from the banks’ officials in the district level, he said.
The mentors will help the entrepreneurs of the ICT on how to receive loans from the banks in a bid to expand their business and how to do marketing of their products, he said.
The ministry letter said that the gov ernment had already taken a number of initiatives including freelancer to entrepreneurs development programme to boost the country’s ICT sector.
Under the programme, the government will create ICT entrepreneurs across the country.
-With New Age input
