RAKUB disburses Tk 257.5m SME loan in eight districts
Sunday, 1 September 2019
SME Financing Company Limited, a subsidiary company of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB), has disbursed Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) loan worth Tk 257.5 million (Tk 25.75 crore) aiming at promoting the sector in different potential areas of Rajshahi region in the last financial year, reports BSS.
The company also recovered loan of Tk 202.2 million (Tk 20.22 crore) attaining profit of Tk 44.2 million (Tk 4.42 crore) in fiscal year 2018-19 (FY '19).
This was revealed in the 23rd meeting of the governing council of the company at the board room of RAKUB headquarters in Rajshahi city.
Chaired Nazrul Islam, Chairman of the council and the RAKUB, the meeting was attended and addressed by RAKUB Managing Director Nurul Islam, among others.
Nazrul Islam urged the company officials to expedite the SME credit programme through intensifying motivational, awareness building and monitoring activities so that the target group of people can derive its total benefits.
Terming the promising SME sector as labour-intensive he viewed that successful promotion of the sector could be the effective means of alleviating poverty, generating employment side by side accelerating economic growth.
SME promotion is very important for reducing the existing gap between rural and urban areas, he added.
The meeting was told that the SME loan was disbursed among 4,356 entrepreneurs in 43 upazilas of Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Natore, Naogaon, Pabna, Sirajganj, Bogura, Joypurhat and Kurigram districts.
Main objectives of the loans are creating an intensive investment scope for the agro-based SMEs in the light of the government's industrial policy and for supplementing the government's efforts to attain food security and economic emancipation.
Various business fields especially software, agro-processing and its business, agriculture, plantation, fisheries, poultry, tissue culture, leather goods, health service and diagnostic centres and education services have been selected for investment as small and medium enterprise loans.