Dhaka, Feb. 25 -- Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur announced on Tuesday that the central bank will soon become fully autonomous as part of comprehensive banking sector reforms.

"The government has already taken the decision to turn the central bank into a full autonomous body. We are preparing. We hope that the proposal to this end will be submitted before the cabinet within two to four months," he said.

He said this while speaking virtually as the special guest at a session titled "Macroeconomic Policy and Governance in the Banking Sector" of a conference at the BRAC Centre Inn Auditorium in the city.

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised the two-day conference on "Recommendations by the Task Force on Re-Strategizing...