‘Help poor senior citizens with CSR fund’

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman urged all the banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) Sunday to come forward with their corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund for the country's destitute senior citizens.

Mr Rahman said this while formally inaugurating the activities of Resource Integration Center (RIC), an NGO, with the financial assistance from the Bangladesh Bank Disaster Management and Social Responsibility Fund at the central bank, said a press release.

At the ceremony, the BB governor handed over cheques worth Tk 5,000 to each of two aged members of RIC. They are Siddiqur Rahman, 70, of Panchdona village in Narsingdi and Sumona Begum, 77, of Nagri village in Gazipur.

BB deputy governor Shitangshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury, executive director M Mahfuzur Rahman and some senior officials of both the central bank and RIC were present at the event.

RIC has been working for the over-60-years-old people living in the country's rural areas for over two and half decades.

Its activities include providing health services, recreation and employment to the destitute old people, and facilitating them to be self-reliant.

Considering RIC's past and present activities, the central bank earlier approved financial assistance worth Tk 2.0 million from its fund to reinforce the center's various programmes.