Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the digitisation programme of the Bangladesh Bank today at a function at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city.
As part of the vision to build a poverty-free, digital Bangladesh through automation and financial inclusion in the banking sector, the central bank took up the programme, titled `Building Digital
Bangladesh: Initiatives by Bangladesh Bank’.
Finance minister
AMA Muhith is also expected to be present at the function.
The prime minister will formally inaugurate at the function a total of 19 technology-based operations which Bangladesh Bank already launched on different occasions as part of its banking sector modernisation and financial inclusion.
The new operations include Bangladesh Automated Clearing House, online CBI service, banking application, enterprise resource
Planning, e-tendering, e-recruitment, e-commerce, online dashboard reporting system, national payment systems, large loan monitoring software, import, export and remittance monitor, customer interest protection centre, agro-loan for sharecropper, mobile banking, school banking, and green banking.
The prime minister will also inaugurate the central bank’s initiative to
collect arts and unveil the memorial coins and bank notes.
-With New Age input
