Dhaka, Sept. 24 -- The Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) established around a decade back to help expatriate workers in difficult times has failed to rise up to their needs when it could have been of great support in time of the pandemic. Reports say that returnee migrant workers are facing difficulties in getting income generating loans from PKB due to lack of proper training on and counselling about receiving and utilising funds. One major obstacle is reportedly the terms and conditions for loans.

The Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment has launched a loan scheme worth Tk 2.0 billion through PKB in mid July, and although around a thousand returnee workers visited PKB branches in their respective areas since then, very fe...