Dhaka, March 7 -- An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation may sit with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman just after the Eid vacation for reconfirmation of commitment from the new government on economic reforms tagged to its lending package.

Randa Elnagar, an IMF spokesperson for Asia, told The Financial Express that the IMF team was finalising the arrangements for the staff visit, which "tentatively should take place within the current month".

Officials say once the commitment is secured from the government high-ups, an IMF loan-programme-review mission will be dispatched to Bangladesh late April after the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group (WBG) in Washington, DC.

The IMF, which extended a total of US$5.5 billion ...