bKash rewards publishing houses for collecting payment

bKash awarded three publishing houses -- Tamralipi, Baatighar and Amaravati for selling the highest number of books through bKash payment at Ekushey Book Fair.

These publication houses were awarded in three categories recently, said a news release on Sunday.

Ali Ahmmed, Chief Commercial Officer of bKash, handed over the awards to AKM Tariqul Islam Roni, publisher of Tamralipi; Dipankar Das, owner of Baatighar and MA Matin, publisher of Amaravati Publication.

bKash organized this event to encourage the publishers to accept digital payments while selling books, country's largest MFS provider.

According to the release, Tamralipi won the first prize of an iPhone by accepting the highest number of payments via bKash in the ‘Pavilion’ category while Baatighar and Amaravati won Samsung mobile phones in two different stall categories.

Mohammad Irfanul Huq, Head of Merchant Business and Sirajul Mowla, Deputy General Manager of bKash, Farid Ahmed, President and Milan Kanti Nath, Senior Vice-President of Academic and Creative Publishers Association of Bangladesh were also present.

bKash has been involved in book fair organized by Bangla Academy for a long time. It has been providing cashback offers at book fair for last eight years to encourage people to buy books.