Sabah Mannan of DOT
[2] The finance ministry said that businesses of export-oriented sectors can avail funds from the package at 2% interest to pay their workers’ salaries for up to three months. The salaries must be paid to either a bank or mobile financial service account, reports The Daily Star.
[3] Salary sheets, workers’ list and their mobile banking accounts has to be provided to banks so that salaries for April can be directly disbursed. The banks, afterwards, will forward the same documents to Bangladesh Bank for reimbursement. [4] Borrowers will get a six-month grace period, meaning that they will start paying back the borrowed money in instalments to the government from the seventh month of receiving the money. [5] These informations were disclosed by Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday who also added that garment factories can operate if they follow the health guidelines stated to combat coronavirus, reports Amadershomoy.com.