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SME-LOAN-RAJSHAHI (with picture)
3,214 entrepreneurs get TK 35.50-crore SME loan in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, Feb 20, 2020 (BSS) – A total of 3,214 entrepreneurs were given SME
loan worth around TK 35.50 crore in different business friendly areas during
the first seven months of the current (2019-2020) fiscal ending January last.
SME Financing Company Limited, a subsidiary company of Rajshahi Krishi
Unnayan Bank (RAKUB), has disbursed the loan with a view to promoting the
sector.
This was revealed in the 28th meeting of the governing council of the
company held at Board room of RAKUB Headquarters here today, a RAKUB press
release here said.
The company also realized loan of TK 32.17 crore from 2,488 entrepreneurs
during the same period in 43 upazilas of Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Natore,
Naogaon, Pabna, Sirajgonj, Bogra, Joypurhat and Kurigram districts.
Roisul Alam, Chairman of the council and the RAKUB presided over the
meeting which was addressed, among others, by RAKUB Managing Director AKM
Sajedur Rahman Khan and council members Sayed Kutub, Prof Rustam Ali Ahmed,
Muhammad Idrish, Ruhul Amin and Chief Executive Officer of the company
Abdullah Salah Uddin Gazi.
The meeting was told that loans were disbursed with the main thrust of
creating an intensive investment scope for the agro-based SMEs in the light
of the government industrial policy and for supplementing the government’s
efforts to attain food security and economic emancipation.
Various business fields especially software, agro-processing and its
business, agriculture, plantation, fisheries, poultry, tissue culture,
leather goods, health service and diagnostic centers and education services
have been selected for investment as small and medium enterprise loans, the
release added.
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