The branches of all scheduled banks will remain open on Friday as they are facing a problem to conduct their regular banking operation in the recent working days due to blockade programmes called by the opposition alliance. Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday asked scheduled banks to keep all their branches open on Friday. To this end, the BB issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all banks asking them to keep their branches open across the country in public interest.
Transaction will remain stop for a while during the jumma prayers and for lunch, the BB said.
Cash and clearing operations will be done on that day, it said.
The regular banking activities have severely been hampered in the recent working days as the opposition parties continued almost non-stop blockades since the last week of November, a BB official told New Age on Wednesday.
Under the circumstances, the BB made the decision to keep all the banks’ branches open on Friday, he said.
The country’s commercial banks keep their branches closed on Fridays due to weekly holiday while they keep a few of their branches open on Saturdays.
All banks also kept their branches open on December 6 to make up for the transactions hampered during earlier spells of non-stop blockade.
-With New Age input
