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Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has attained operational profit worth Tk 44.8 crore in the last 2021-2022 financial year overcoming the loss of Tk 3.10 crore incurred in the previous 2020-2021 fiscal year.
The bank has also dropped its net loss of Tk 211.79 crore from Tk 272.64 crore in the last fiscal year.
Managing Director Abdul Mannan said they attained the profit as a result of the painstaking efforts of all officers and employees under a strong monitoring cell.
“We have arranged open loan disbursement programmes, loan fair, loan recovery grand camp and deposit collection fair in all 383 branches,” he said.
He added that loans worth Tk 3,183 crore, including classified loans of Tk 3,290 crore were disbursed against the target of Tk 3,000 crore in the last fiscal.
They have also mobilised deposits of Tk 6,757 crore. “We have been able to reduce the number of loss-incurring branches to 87 from 151 in the last fiscal.
On March 23 last, RAKUB entered into the era of mobile App and internet banking aimed at bringing dynamism into its banking services.
With this breakthrough, clients of the bank are being benefited in many ways, including banking transactions anytime and from anywhere, bill payment of utility services and opening of new bank accounts from home.