2024-04-26 01:02:28
The Standing Committee on Finance Ministry has suggested increasing the facility of seamless immigration and customs clearance at the airport.
This recommendation was made in the second meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance Ministry of the 12th National Parliament at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhawan on Wednesday (April 24).
Committee member and State Minister for Finance Wasika Ayesha Khan, MA Mannan, AK Abdul Momen, Ahmed Feroz Kabir, AKM Salim Osman and Runu Reza were present.
The meeting discussed the provision of ongoing financial as well as non-financial incentives to speed up remittances through legitimate banking channels. For this purpose special smart cards are issued to the remittance senders and their families through which they can avail the benefits. Their parents and spouses and children are recommended to be given special privileges in all levels of government hospitals, government service offices and law enforcement agencies for protection. It is also advised to facilitate seamless immigration and customs clearance at the airport.
In the meeting, the use of smart app to increase the remittance income, the necessary measures to provide national identity cards, birth registration certificates to the expatriates so that they can send money smoothly and to take the activities on the transparent platform to bring dynamism to the activities of the concerned ministries were suggested.