Bangladesh Bank has announced the monetary policy for the first six months of the year, following the previous trend, keeping in mind the strategy of controlling inflation. Where there was no change in the policy interest rate. There was a hint that the policy interest rate would not be lowered until inflation decreased to the desired level. In the last month of January, the overall inflation on a point-to-point basis was 8.58 percent. In the previous month, December, it was 8.29 percent.