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(Bengali: জনতা ব্যাংক পিএলসি) is a state-owned commercial bank of Bangladesh established in 1972. Its headquarters is situated at Motijheel in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. It is the second largest commercial bank in Bangladesh.[2][3][4] In 2019, Janata Bank had a fiscal deficit of 82.56 billion taka, the highest of any bank in Bangladesh ever.[5][6] It's the best performing public bank in Bangladesh.[7]With the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent, sovereign state in 1971 after a devastating nine month war against the West Pakistani occupation army, a war, full of blood and tears, trauma and pain of millions of our beloved ones, the legacy of rebuilding the already broken financial base of the country was felt as an urgent call of the day against a collapsed economic reality of a newly born state.
