Country’s public and private sector banks and non-bank financial institutes have received a total of US $ 249.83 million as remittance in the first week of the current month of January.

Among the private sector commercial banks, Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) has received the highest amount of $ 73.35 million in the said period while four state owned commercial banks, Sonali, Agrani Janata and Rupali together have received $ 62.79 million.

Among the government-owned banks, Sonali received $ 17.64 million, Agrani $ 22.75 million, Janata $ 21.29 million and Rupali $ 1.11 million.

Among two government-owned specialised banks, Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has received $ 2.29 million while Basic Bank received no remittance in the said period.

The received remittance of nine foreign banks amounted to $ 2.48 million while 30 private sector commercial banks have received US$ 181.64 million.

As per the account of the Foreign Exchange Policy Department of Bangladesh Bank, in 2010-11 fiscal year the country bagged a total of $11,950.31 million as remittance while the amount was $6065.46 million in July-December period of the current 2011-12 FY.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 13th Jan 2012