Bangladesh receives $142cr remittance in 26 days of May

The government is providing various facilities to send remittances through legal channels. As part of the initiative, Bangladesh received $141.942 crore in remittance in the first 26 days of May.

According to the Bangladesh Bank data on Sunday (May 28), $24.85 crore came through six state-owned banks.

Apart from this, $4.70 crore came through a specialised Bank. Besides, $111.81 crore came through private sector banks and $57.50 lakh came through foreign commercial banks.

$2103.17 crore remittances came in the financial year 2021-2022. Earlier, the amount of remittance collection in the financial year 2020-21 was $2,477.77 crore.