BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers urged the field level bankers to give more emphasis towards development of entrepreneurship through small and medium enterprises (SME) financing to accelerate the economic position of grassroots.
Narrating the significance of entrepreneurship development and increased financing in the SME sector they also urged them to boost credit-flow to the sector.
They were addressing the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of a five-day training course on ‘Entrepreneurship Development and SME Financing’ organized by Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) at its training institute here on Thursday afternoon.
RAKUB Managing Director Monjur Ahmed also spoke on the occasion as chief guest with Principal of the academy Mozammel Haque in the chair.
A total of 34 officers and senior officers of RAKUB took part in the training course.
They said the SME sector can play an effective role in economic progress, employment generation and poverty reduction. If the SMEs are properly financed, the nation would be benefited, they added.
In this regard, they asked the bankers to expedite the RAKUB’s SME credit program through intensifying motivational, awareness building and monitoring activities to make the program a total success.
According to RAKUB sources, the main thrust of the SME programme is to create an intensive investment scope for the agro-based SMEs in the light of the government industrial policy and for supplementing the government’s efforts to attain food security and economic emancipation.
In addition to generating new talented entrepreneurs, the scheme has provision for creating more women entrepreneurs through providing them with special facilities so that they could be brought to mainstream of the national economic development activities.
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.
Speakers urged the field level bankers to give more emphasis towards development of entrepreneurship through small and medium enterprises (SME) financing to accelerate the economic position of grassroots.
Narrating the significance of entrepreneurship development and increased financing in the SME sector they also urged them to boost credit-flow to the sector.
They were addressing the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of a five-day training course on ‘Entrepreneurship Development and SME Financing’ organized by Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) at its training institute here on Thursday afternoon.
RAKUB Managing Director Monjur Ahmed also spoke on the occasion as chief guest with Principal of the academy Mozammel Haque in the chair.
A total of 34 officers and senior officers of RAKUB took part in the training course.
They said the SME sector can play an effective role in economic progress, employment generation and poverty reduction. If the SMEs are properly financed, the nation would be benefited, they added.
In this regard, they asked the bankers to expedite the RAKUB’s SME credit program through intensifying motivational, awareness building and monitoring activities to make the program a total success.
According to RAKUB sources, the main thrust of the SME programme is to create an intensive investment scope for the agro-based SMEs in the light of the government industrial policy and for supplementing the government’s efforts to attain food security and economic emancipation.
In addition to generating new talented entrepreneurs, the scheme has provision for creating more women entrepreneurs through providing them with special facilities so that they could be brought to mainstream of the national economic development activities.
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.
