Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will release new currency notes worth Tk 23,000 crore today (Thursday) on the occasion of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims.
People will be able to collect new bank notes from the BB’s head office at Motijheel Commercial Area and 14 branches of commercial banks in the capital changing old notes.
“The central bank starts releasing fresh banknotes of different denominations from Thursday to meet the huge demand for such currency notes ahead of the Eid festival”, BB spokesman Subhankor Saha told The New Nation yesterday.
He said, individuals will be able to collect new notes from the central bank and the branches of the commercial banks in the capital.
Three booths will remain open at BB’s Motijheel office for smooth disbursement of new banknotes. Fourteen branches of different commercial banks have been assigned to distribute fresh banknotes. National Bank’s Jatrabari Branch, Agrani Bank’s Elephant Road Branch, SIBL’s Basundhara City Branch, Bank Asian’s Dhanmondi Branch, Dhaka Bank’s Uttara Branch, Janata Bank’s Abdul Gani Road Branch, City Bank’s Mirpur Branch and Shahjalaj Bank’s Malibagh Chowdhurypara Branch will distribute bank notes of Tk 10 and Tk 20 denominations, while Mercantile Bank’s Banani Branch, Sonali Bank’s Ramna Branch, One Bank’s Bashabo Branch, IFIC’s Gulshan Branch, Rupali Bank’s Mohakhali Branch and First Security’s Mohammadpur Branch will distribute Tk 100, Tk 500 and Tk 1000 bank notes.
Outside Dhaka, branch offices of the central bank at Bogra, Mymensingh, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, Rangpur and Barisal will also distribute new currency notes.
