CHAPTER ONE

1. Introduction

Internship is an assigned work performed usually at the end of a course curriculum. The goal of internship is to apply one’s theoretical knowledge in practical fields. Thus internship is a pragmatic application of knowledge and achieving practical experience by engaging oneself in different and distinct sectors of work.

In normal sense, we know that internship is a practical knowledge of specific think. But in broad, it means to acquire knowledge and information getting directly by searching. That is to work in respectively fields practically according to the theoretical knowledge is called internship.

It is the application of knowledge, which a candidate has gathered by academic subjects. After completing the academic courses a person may be appointed to an eligible post by the theoretical and practical knowledge. To invent something new by proper investigation or discussion of a known and unknown matter and to make a right decision by the knowledge is the main theme of internship.

So, internship is standard method taken for searching knowledge i.e. it is the combination of theoretical and practical knowledge

2. Objectives of the study

The main purpose of this study is to investigate and observe into the loan disbursement and recovery of Sonali Bank Limited, Sopura Branch, Rajshahi and to provide some suggestions to improve its performance. However, followings are some of the specific objectives of the study:

❖ To know general banking activities performed by the bank.

❖ To find out the comparative position of the bank.

❖ To identify various loans, advances and credit provided by the bank.

❖ To know the amount of disbursement and recovery of the bank.

❖ To know what are the vouchers and documents are used.

❖ To know the vouching and accounting system of the bank.