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`Women to get Tk.25 lakh loan without pledge`

Nasim || risingbd.com

Published: 15:35, 21 December 2014   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
`Women to get Tk.25 lakh loan without pledge`

Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman categorically said that women entrepreneurs will get highest Tk.25 lakh as loans without making any pledges.

 

He came up with the assertion while addressing a seminar titled “Credit Access for Women Entrepreneurs - Challenges and the Way Forward” at Hotel Agrabad in Chittagong on Sunday.

 

Atiur Rahman said that women entrepreneurs don’t became loan defaulter but they faced harassment to get loan.

 

“In this context, Bangladesh Bank took so many initiatives as if women do not face any harassment in taking their loans,” said the BB boss.

 

The Governor also suggested to complain to the concerning SME department directly if any women entrepreneur faced any irrelevant question or problems from banks.

 

With CWCCI president Quamrun Malek in the chair team leader of Bangladesh INSPIRED Component 3 Ali Sabet read out the written statement at the press conference. FBCCI (Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry) first vice president and founder president of CWCCI Monowara Hakim Ali, CWCCI vice president Ivy Hasan and other were attended in the programme.

 

risingbd/ Dhaka/ Dec 21, 2014/ Rezaul Karim/ Nasim/ Mahfuz

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