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New bank on cards

It will offer deposit services to members of 'one house, one farm1 project

Staff Correspondent
The government has moved to set up a specialised bank styled "Polli Shanchay Bank" for members of "Ekti Bari Ekti Khamar" project in order to give a permanent shape to the scheme for development of rural people. The scheme was launched in 2009 aiming to set up a farm at every house to create income and livelihood for rural people by combining human resources with micro savings. As the first phase was completed in June, the government began the second phase the following month, which will last until June 2016.
The Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives ministry has prepared a draft outlining the formation of the specialised bank, whose shareholders will all be members of the project and the government. The draft will soon be submitted to the cabinet for approval.
"It will be a social and specialised bank only for members of the 'one house, one farm' project," said Project Director Prosanta Kumar Roy yesterday at a workshop organised by the ministry at CIRDAP auditorium in the capital to discuss the draft
The members of the project have now Tk 1,332 crore in savings and the money is now being transacted from the project's accounts, he said. After the bank is set up, the members will have separate savings accounts and they will do money transactions through the bank, said Roy, who is also joint secretary of the LGRD and cooperatives ministry.
But, he said, the bank would not provide any credit facility to the account holders. "It will offer savings and other deposit services, in addition to remittance services."
The bank's board of directors will be formed with representations from among the project members and the government as well, but only the shareholders will be entitled to enjoy corporate benefits such as profit or dividend.
Online banking facilities will also be available to increase the confidence of the under-privileged people of the project, Prosanta Roy said.
As many as 10 lakh fami-
lies are under the project now, and by the end of the second phase, it will cover 25 lakh families, he said.
The main objectives of the project include making every house of a village a centre of income generation through maximum utilisation of natural and human resources, encouraging micro savings by underprivileged people and providing credit with soft service charges, the joint secretary said.
Jahangir Kabir Nanok, state minister for the LGRD and cooperatives ministry; MA Kader Sarkar, secretary of the rural development and cooperatives division; Mihir Kanti Majumdar, a former secretary, and Badiul Alam Majumder, secretary of Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik, also spoke at the programme.