SBI is the proud recipient of many recognitions/awards this year, the notable among them being “ Bank of the Year 2008-India” by Banker Magazine, Most Admired Infrastructure Financier” award by KPMG” “Top Public Sector Bank under SME Financing” by Dun and Bradsheet and “Best Executive award” to the Chairman by Asia Money. SBI has improved its ranking in Fortune 500 list, Forbes list of 2000 largest companies in the world, Banker list of 1000 world banks, Brand Finance- Global 500 Financial Brand recognition, to name a few.

Visa services of High Commission of India, Dhaka and Assistant High Commission of India, Chittagong are outsourced to State Bank of India. Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) at Gulshan, Dhaka was established in December 2005 followed by IVAC, Chittagong in October 2006 and IVAC, Sylhet and IVAC, Motijheel in July 2009. Together, IVAC processes around 5 lacs visa applications of Bangladeshi Passport holders in a year, which, by far, could perhaps be the largest number by any visa processing agency worldwide.SBI proposes to open more visa centres in Bangladesh to provide timely and quality services to Bangladeshi nationals.

Provision of the other services in future is also being considered. Some of them are:

• Online submission of visa application
• Online passport tracking system to ascertain the status of application
• Travel related services like sale of tickets, booking of seats in various medical and  educational institutions and hotels etc.

Suggestion boxes have been installed at all IVAC Centres. We welcome any constructive suggestion for improvement of services. You may also mail your suggestions to us at info@ivacbd.com