Accelerated customers services in Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) is very vital for boosting agricultural production everywhere in the country’s northwest region.

This was stressed in the 373rd meeting of the board of directors of the Bank held at its board room with its board chairman Prof Dr Shah Nawaz Ali in the chair here on Monday afternoon, the meeting sources said.The meeting also emphasised that all the existing agricultural potential sectors should be brought under qualitative and quantitative financing for making the country’s northwest region economically solvent.

The meeting also noted that the Bank’s administrative and operational activities must be transparent and accountable alongside farmers-friendly for boosting agricultural production.For the sake of sustainable livelihood development of the farmers and for bolstering the agro-based economy, the meeting called for increasing the qualitative and quantitative credit flow.  

The meeting discussed elaborately on how to make the Bank’s operational and commercial activities more dynamic through strengthening the credit support for both farm and non-farm prospective fields. Managing director of the bank Prodip Kumar Dutta, directors Khandaker Jahangir Kabir Rana, Abdul Mannan and Dr Rustam Ali Ahmed attended the meeting.

Deputy managing director Siddiqur Rahman, Mosharraf Hossain Chowdhury, general manager (Administration) Ekramul Haque, general manager (Audit, Accounts and Recovery) Nishit Kumar Shaha, general manager (Operation) Habibur Rahman and council-secretary AB Siddiqui were also present.

The Daily Independent/Bangladesh/ 11th Jan 2012