UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Bank will evolve its next 5 years’ strategic plan laying top importance on human resource development.
“Our one of the main focuses will be on leadership development for the country’s banking and economic sector,” said Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman while addressing a pre-retreat press briefing at the bank.
He mentioned that the central bank has moved to establish a leadership excellence centre in the port city Chittagong to create good leadership through development of human resources.
The centre, to be set up with the central bank’s own fund on its own land, will follow the model of banking excellence centre in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.
“We’ve already appointed an architect for designing the centre,” Dr. Atiur said.
The press briefing was arranged ahead of the central bank’s executives meeting on 4-6 September at BRAC CDM at Saver to prepare the next five- year strategic plan 2015-19.
Bangladesh Bank’s deputy governors Abu Hena Razi Hasan, SK Sur Chowdhury and Naznin Sultana, and advisor Allah-Malik Kazmi also spoke at the press briefing.
Bangladesh Bank executive director Mahfuzur Rahman made a presentation on the current 5-year (2010-14) strategic plan’s implementation and achievements.
Bangladesh Bank governor Dr. Atiur Rahman said the central bank’s one of the major successes in the last five years was to enhance the financial inclusion, introduce automation and digitizations, and also green banking.
He said the central bank has been announcing its monetary policy keeping its core value of financial inclusion to bring the unbanked people to the banking network. This has given a tremendous result in creating awareness among the common and grassroots level people.
