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Updated list of loan defaulters soon

Gout may also allow whole rescheduling of bad loans

Staff Correspondent
Five days into unveiling a list of loan defaulters, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said the government would soon publish an updated list.
It also plans to allow wholesale rescheduling of loan payments so the volume of default loans does not swell at this time of global recession.
An announcement to that effect may come shortly, he added.
The list Muhith placed in parliament on July 5 was the second of its kind.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the then finance minister M Saifur Rahman rolled out the first official list of borrowers defaulting on loans.
Muhith hinted that the revised list may not have the names of the Beximco Group companies.
"Beximco yesterday sent me a letter saying that they have regularised loans with different banks. So I assume the next list may give a different picture."
He was talking to reporters after inaugurating an online system for submission of tax returns at the National Board of Revenue headquarters.
According to the July 5 roll, which was based on information updated till March, eight Beximco firms were defaulting on loans to the tune ofTk 981.56 crore.
Fourofthemwcreamongthctop lOdefaulters.
For around the last two decades, if some Beximco concerns regularised their loans at times, the others kept defaulting, said bank sources.
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But after publication of the latest list, the group claimed that all its firms had rescheduled their loans after March and so should not be labelled as defaulter anymore.
The finance minister noted that many a business ended up being defaulters during the last caretaker government as the owners or operators were injailorontherun.
As a result of the government measures during that time, the number of defaulters shot up, and many firms changed hands, he continued. "It's not proper to say if the moves were right. Maybe they were in some cases."
Since being listed as defaulters dent reputation and affect business, he noted, many had moved to get their names off the list after December.
Referring to the rush of defaulters in the city's banking hub to regularise debts before the end of fiscal year, he said Motijheel was quite busy in June.
He added that many had complained to the media that publishing their names even after rearrangement of loan payments was an injustice. “It’s my obligation now to take necessary steps so that no-one feels that way.”
He however said as default loans are always bad for economic health, the government would be on guard against their increase.