Bangladesh Bank will print 200,000 more commemorative notes of Taka 40 along with the portrait of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

General Manager of Currency Department of the central bank Saiful Islam told BSS that the BB is going to print the notes to meet the growing demand of the people.

He said due to huge demand of the 40 Taka note among the people , its stock has been finished within 20 days of the release. Bangladesh Bank printed earlier one lakh fifty thousand notes of the same category.

The central bank released the note on December 26 last year on the occasion of 40th anniversary of country’s Victory Day.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 17th Jan 2012