Our Correspondent
In the first 22 days of this month of March, money equivalent to 141 million 44 million US dollars came into the country through legal or banking channels. In local currency, the amount is 15 thousand 208 crores (1100 rupees per dollar). This information was revealed in the updated statistics published by the central bank on Monday (March 24).
Reviewing the data of the Central Bank, it was found that in the first 22 days of this March, remittances reached 1414.44 million US dollars (1414.45 million). Among them, 182.5 million dollars came through state-owned banks, 2.15 million dollars through a specialized bank, 12.24 million dollars came through private banks and 5.71 million dollars remittances came through foreign banks.
However, at this time, no expatriate income came to the state-owned Bangladesh Development Bank (BDBL), specialized sector Rajshahi Agricultural Development Bank (Raqab) and private sector Community Bank, Citizens Bank, ICB Islami Bank, Border Bank. Apart from this, no remittance has come to foreign sector Habib Bank, National Bank of Pakistan and State Bank of India.
In January of this year, remittances to the country reached 210 million US dollars. And in February comes 216 million 60 million US dollars.
In the last financial year 2022-23, the total remittance received was two thousand 161 crore seven lakh US dollars. In the previous financial year 2021-2022, the total remittance came to 2031.7 million US dollars. In the financial year 2020-21, the remittance came to 2 thousand 477 crore 77 million US dollars, which is the highest amount of remittance.
