Indian citizens living in Bangladesh remitted $ 50.60 million to their country in the first ten months of the 2023-24 financial year, finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday.
At the same time, foreigners remitted a total of $130.58 million to different countries, the finance minister also said in reply to the query of independent lawmaker AK Azad.
In a scripted answer, the finance minister said that the annual income information of foreign nationals living in Bangladesh is not stored in Bangladesh Bank.
鈥楩rom July to April of the current financial year [2023-24], foreign nationals living in Bangladesh have remitted 130.58 million dollars from their income to their countries,鈥� he said.
Giving the breakdown of dollars sent by the citizens of the countries, the minister said, Indian sent $50.60 million, Chinese $14.56 million, Sri Lankans $12.71 million, Japanese $6.89 million, S Koreans $6.21 million, Thais $5.30 million, British $3.59 million, Pakistanis $3.24 million, US citizens $3.17 million, Malaysia $2.40 million, and citizens of other countries took away $21.92 million to their countries.
