DHAKA, March 8, 2021 (BSS) – Aiming to accelerate the process of women’s empowerment, Nagad, the digital financial service arm of Bangladesh Post Office has taken an initiative to recruiting ten women entrepreneurs in each upazila of the country.
Nagad will train up the selected women in addition and will be given the
necessary support to deliver Nagad services at the remote level, said a press release.
Any woman who wants to become self-dependent through providing digital
financial services can apply to be registered as an entrepreneur of Nagad,
the fast growing digital financial service provider of the country.
Interested candidates should apply by March 31 via e-mail with resume. E-mail
address for sending application –[email protected].
The Nagad, second largest mobile financial service carrier of the
country, authority will organize special training on digital financial
services by screening the applicants and ultimately recruit as entrepreneurs
from the successful trainee list.
Commenting on the issue, Tanvir A Mishuk, Managing Director of Nagad,
said, “We are working to accelerate the digital transaction services to all
types of people across the country. Women empowerment is one of our top
priorities. We believe that this initiative will also make a significant
contribution to ensuring equal participation of women in digital business and
eliminating gender inequality from the society, which will also ensure a
digital lifestyle for all men and women. Moreover, if women are employed as
entrepreneurs, the number of financial inclusion among women will increase.”
There are currently over a hundred women entrepreneurs working with
Nagad and a significant number of them have established themselves as Nagad
entrepreneurs. Some women entrepreneurs are transacting Taka one to two lakh
a day and they themselves are earning good money.
This will be a unique initiative to employ women entrepreneurs at the
grassroots level in the financial services business.