Bangladesh Bank has started holding meetings of bank officials and depositors to create awareness about Deposit Insurance Scheme, which is designed to minimise the risk that the depositors suffer for placing funds with a bank. As part of this move, the central bank held meetings of bank officials and depositors in Chittagong and Khulna regions. It will organize such meetings in different regions in the next two months.
‘Customers of commercial banks are not aware about the DIS . . . we are organizing such meetings to aware them because protecting the interest of depositors is our prime responsibility,’ Khagesh Chanda, general manager of BB’s Deposit Insurance Scheme, told the news agency.
-With New Age input
