Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 29 -- The Ministry of Finance will meet with five private commercial banks (PCBs) on Thursday to apprise them of the procedure of handling the automated challans.

The meeting is scheduled to be held at Institute of Public Finance (IPF) in the capital Dhaka.

The automated challans will be introduced from September 01.

This is the first time the government is partnering with the private banks to promote the challans.

Initially five private banks will participate in it, which will be expanded to all 59 banks by the end of this calendar year.

The five PCBs are: Dhaka Bank, Bank Asia, Premier Bank, Trust Bank and One Bank.

Challan is an official form or document, a piece of paperwork, citation, etc used to credit ...