Dhaka, Jan. 22 -- Central bank autonomy and banking-reform bills of legislation before long as the finance adviser pledges a push within the interim government tenure as experts plead for healing chronic banking ills.

Dr Salehuddin Ahmed said at a meet Thursday that the interim government would make a final push to enact the much-hyped reforms in the banking sector, including amendments to the Bank Company Act and the Bangladesh Bank Order, to strengthen the central bank's autonomy.

Speaking at an MTB-Financial Express roundtable on banking-sector reforms, the finance adviser of the interim government said the government had only about 20 days left in office, making it difficult to complete both reforms within its remaining time.

If th...