KULOB, November 10, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Over the first ten months of this year, labor migrants have remitted some 29 million US dollars to the branches of Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) in Kulob, which is 20 million dollars more than in the same period of last year, Izzatullo Rahmonov, the head of Amonatbonk’s regional branch in Kulob, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

“Over the report period, Amonatbonk’s branches in the Kulob region have provided more than 27 million somoni in loans, which is more than over the past ten years put together,” Rahmonov said, attributing the bank’s successes to increasing trust of population in it.      

“Over the past year alone, population’s deposits in Amonatbonk’s branches in the Kulob region have amounted to more than 7 million somoni,” he noted.