\\\'Bank account holding students to direct economic growth\\\'

RAJSHAHI, Sept 21 (BSS): Bank account holding students will be the driving force of economic growth to take the nation forward.
Effort is going on to bring the youth under financial service network from their boyhood, expand financial education and to bring the general masses under banking services. School banking is part of that effort.
The observations came at a daylong school banking conference held at Bangladesh Bank in Rajshahi city Saturday. Green Banking and Corporate Social Responsibility Division of Bangladesh Bank hosted the divisional conference in order to boost up the rate of school banking accounts and spread the school banking activities all over the region.
A number of school level students, guardians, teachers, CEOs and senor officials of different banks attended the conference. With the school banking scheme, designed for the students up to class X, the under-18 students are being usual with savings habit and orientated with the banking process at tender age.
BB Deputy Governor Shitangshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury attended and addressed the conference as the chief guest with Executive Director Mahfuzur Rahman in the chair.
Executive Director Zinnatul Bakeya, Managing Director of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank Mofazzal Hossain and General Manager of Rupali Bank Debashish Chakravarty also spoke.
SK Sur Chowdhury said country's 187,000 school students have deposited vast money with their 'school banking' accounts of different banks having an average balance of about Tk 6,096 each in last around three years.