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Apply new law to recover loan, Kibria asks bankers
Finance Minister Shall AMS Kibria yesterday expressed his "anxiety'' over the slow recovery of classified loan and asked the bankers to apply the new law framed to deal with the default menace, reports UNB.
In a meeting with the managing directors of the nationalised and private banks and development financial institutions (DFIs). he said the Financial Loan Court law had been amended for gearing up the loan-recovery drive.
"You try your best to recover the classified loan ... Just inform me if the present laws are not sufficient. If needed, we will make law more stringent and efficient." Kibria was quoted as saying by a source present in the meeting.
Bangladesh Bank has asked the commercial banks and DFIs to recover by next March 31 at least 50 per cent of the total classified credit, now amounting to Tk 15.000 crore, according to officials and bankers.
But the meeting noted that the rate of recovery till date was not up to the expected level.
Kibria said no nation could prosper with a default culture and told the meeting that henceforth, the recovery rate of classified loan would be considered in evaluating the professional competence of the bankers.
In this connection, he asked the bank officials to strengthen the legal side of the banks following the amendments to the
Financial Loan Court Act. to speed up the classified loan-recovery drive.
The finance minister assured the bankers that there would be no political interference in banking activities, specially in giving loans, from the government side.
He also called upon the bankers for putting in utmost efforts for the development of banking services with their professional knowledge in a free and fair atmosphere.
The chief executives of the banks acknowledged that there
had been no interference in extending loans and the current trend suggested that no new loan would be classified because of absence of political pressure.
While reviewing the overall activities of banks and DFIs and various problems prevailing in the country's banking sector, the issue of liquidity came up for discussion in the meeting.
The meeting, according to official sources, noted that there is no shortage in overall liquidity position of the banks, but at the same time the available liquidity cannot also be called excess.
Kibria advised the bankers to render better services to the clients and recover the advance stuck up in different hands as , steps to build up comfortable liquidity position.
Suggesting syndication system as an effective way to finance large-scale projects, he said foreign banks in Bangladesh are also interested in syndication system in project financing.
The minister also advised the Bangladesh Bank to perform its regulatory function vigorously for better banking performance in nationalised commercial banks, private banks and the DFIs.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Lutfar Rahman Sarker, Finance Secretary Dr Akbar Ali Khan. Banking Secretary Syed Amir-Ul-Mulk and senior officials were present at the meeting held in the Finance Ministry.