Raise awareness on benefits of insurance: PM to companies
The theme of this year's National Insurance Day is 'Mujib Borsher Ongikar, Bima Hok Sobar'. She said if awareness can be generated then people would opt for opening various types of insurance policies. "For this purpose, huge publicity is urgently needed," she said. Sheikh Hasina also elaborated the government's initiatives for developing the insurance industry and noted that the Insurance Act 2010 and National Insurance Policy 2014 were formulated to replace the old law of 1938. Besides, the government also constituted the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority in 2010 to give the in...