Bangladesh Bank and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have honoured bKash for significant contribution as payment partner to the ‘Smart Bangladesh, Smart Haat’ initiative taken during Eid-ul-Azha in six cattle markets in the DNCC area.
DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam handed over the honorary crest to Major General (retd) Sheikh Md Monirul Islam Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer of bKash at a program held at DNCC auditorium in the city on Wednesday.
As part of building a digital Bangladesh and reducing cash dependency as well as preventing fraudulent activities in cattle markets, Bangladesh Bank and DNCC conducted the pilot project “Smart Bangladesh, Smart Haat” in six cattle haats at Gabtoli, Basila, Aftabnagar, Vatara, Kawla and Uttara Sector 17 during Eid-ul-Azha.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and the Bangladesh Dairy Farmers Association were the collaborators in this initiative. Besides six banks, VISA and Mastercard, the country’s largest mobile financial services provider bKash was the MFS payment partner in each of these cattle markets. bKash also provided similar payment services to other large cattle markets through the approval of the Bangladesh Bank.
Among others, Md Khurshid Alam, Executive Director and Shah Zia-Ul Haque, Additional Director of Payment Systems Division (PSD) of Bangladesh Bank; Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee, Vice President, Merchant Business of bKash and other high officials were present at the event.
