Bank Asia, BB award certificates to SME entrepreneurs

Bank Asia Limited in association with Bangladesh Bank have organised a certificate awarding ceremony in Cox's Bazar recently to award 26 SME entrepreneurs, who took part in a monthlong training programme.

Md Nazrul Islam, additional director of credit guarantee department at Bangladesh Bank, attended the programme and handed over certificates among the participants in the concluding ceremony of the training programme.  Some potential entrepreneurs meanwhile received loans from Bank Asia to run their businesses smoothly, said a press release.

Mohammad Jahid Iqbal, joint director of SME special programmes development at the central bank, Shaminoor Rahman, head of the micro small and medium enterprises of Bank Asia, were present as the special guests.

M Eshamul Arephin, head of Bank Asia Institute for Training & Development, presided over the programme, where Md Iqbal Hossain, co-trainer of Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP), and Rajib Dhar, head of Cox's Bazar branch of Bank Asia, were also present.

The programme was funded by Asian Development Bank and managed by the SEIP of the SME and special programmes department of the Bangladesh Bank.