Nearly 60% of the bank accounts opened by school children in the last seven years are with private commercial banks. Also Read- Tk1,138 crore in Bangladeshi students’ bank accountsThe Bangladesh Bank data showed that school banking was less popular in rural areas compared to the cities. A central bank official said the banks had earlier taken a number of initiatives to boost the school banking programme. “The Bangladesh Bank now wants to spread school banking through education,” the official told the Dhaka Tribune. “We have organised a meeting with concerned authorities related to education ministries to include school banking in the syllabus.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 17, 2017 09:00 UTC