SCBA to provide loans to 3,000 of its members

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will provide Tk 30,000 to maximum Tk 75,000 as loans without any interest for three years to its lawyers in need, in order to tackle the ongoing crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Around 3,000 members of the SCBA who have applied for the loans will be given the money through their bank accounts by this week, SCBA President Advocate AM Amin Uddin told The Daily Star.

The lawyers who have become members of SCBA before the year 2000 will be given Tk 75,000 each; the lawyers who have become members between 200-2007 will be given Tk 50,000 each; those who have become members between 2008 and 2013 will be given Tk 40,000 each.

Additionally, lawyers who have become members of the SCBA between 2014 and 2019 will be given Tk 30,000 each, the SCBA president said.

The SCBA president also said those who avail the loan will be asked to refund the money to the SCBA fund in five instalments by December 2022.

Otherwise, they will have to refund the money with interest, Advocate Amin Uddin added.