An official of Prime bank Limited, voluntarily donates blood for better treatment of the victims of Savar “Rana Plaza” tragedy at the bank’s office opremises in Dhaka recently. Md. Shirajul Islam Mollah, Chairman of PBL inaugurated the blood donation campaign.

Prime Bank Limited expressed deep sympathy to the victims and their families of Savar “Rana Plaza” tragedy took place on 24 April.

The management of Prime Bank Limited has decided to help the victims and their families by contributing one day’s basic salary of all the employees of the bank as donation, said a press release.

The bank organized a voluntary blood donation campaign on 27th April at the office premises of the bank to collect blood for better treatment of the victims of Savar “Rana Plaza” tragedy.

Chairman of the Prime Bank Md. Shirajul Islam Mollah inaugurated the campaign. Employees of the Prime Bank participated in the voluntary blood donation campaign.

Managing Director& CEO of Prime Bank Md. Ehsan Khasru, Deputy Managing Directors, Ahmed Kamal Khan Chowdhury, Kanti Kumar Saha and Quazi ASM Anisul Kabir and Chief Executive Officer of Prime Bank Foundation Dr. Iqbal Anwar were also present.

Rokshana Zaman has been elected vice-chairperson of Dhaka Bank Limited.

Zaman, the proprietor of Manehor Fisheries and Dhaka Enterprise, started her career as a pioneer entrepreneur in garments sector, said a press release.

She first involved herself in the banking business as an alternate Director of Dhaka Bank in 1996.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman speaks at a seminar at a hotel in Dhaka Sunday. sun Photo

The Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has called upon all the banks and financial institutions not to finance any errant garment factories.

“We urge the banks and financial institutions not to provide any financial facility to non-compliant garment factories,” Dr Atiur Rahman said, while emerging from a seminar held in the city Sunday.

The call from the BB boss came, following the collapse of a Savar building that housed five RMG units on Wednesday, leaving nearly four hundreds dead.

From now on, he said, such financing would require compliance letter as the central bank has been working to make sure that RMG units are developed in a compliant way.

“We’ve to make sure that greedy factory owners don’t get any facility from the country’s financial sector and its executives have to ensure us that they won’t encourage such people,” Atiur said.

Terming the Savar mayhem a “collective failure,” he said the government, development partners, private organisations and trade bodies have to work together to fend off such incidents further. However, he sees the accident as an “opportunity” for the nation, hoping that it could be an eye opener for all.

When his attention was drawn to the fact that many RMG factory owners happen to be bank owners also, the Governor said in such cases, chief executives of those banks would be held responsible for the violation of any directives of the regulator.

The governor also applauded the courageous rescue operation conducted by the combined forces and the civilians, saying that the spontaneous response from the people to the accident was unprecedented and unique in the world.

Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited has extended its support to the Rana Plaza tragedy victims by donating Tk 1.0 lakh to each of the deceased who died at the collapse of the 9-storey building at Savar on Wednesday last.

DBBL also mourned the tragic death of the poor garments workers and also expressed deep sympathy towards their family members who have been injured by the disaster.

Dr. Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin, MP, and SK Sur Chowdhury, Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank, seen at a function in Dhaka recently.

First Security Islami Bank Limited (FSIBL) launched school mobile banking for the students of Agrani School and College at Azimpur in Dhaka recently.

The guardians of the students will be able to pay school’s monthly fees anytime from their home through FSIBL school mobile banking, said a press release.

News:Daily Sun Bangladesh/28-Apr-2013