KT Ajit, Chief General Manager Bhopal Circle (MP& CG) State Bank of India handed over keys of a rescue vehicle to Atul Shrivastava (IFS), Director Van Vihar Bhopal, hence, fulfilling the long felt need of Van-Vihar as the vehicle will be used to bring wounded wild animals from across the State for the treatment to the rescue centre at Van Vihar.
On this occasion Ajit said that the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of the Bank touch the lives of millions of poor and needy across the length and breadth of the country.
The focus area of Banks CSR activities are supporting education, supporting health care, assistance to poor and underprivileged, environment protection, livelihood creation and assistance during natural calamities like floods/droughts etc.
He also advised that the Bank has set up State Bank Foundation to exclusively look after CSR activities.
During the past two years SBI provided 140,000 electric fans to 14,000 needy schools across the country. Infrastructure support by way of furniture, computers and other education accessories and donation of large number of school buses/vans to the physically challenged children and children belonging to economically weaker sections of society have been provided by the Bank.
The Bank installed more than 30,000 water purifiers in schools. During the same period Bank donated 210 ambulances worth `18.38 crore to NGOs operating in rural and semi urban centres of all states to help in delivering quality healthcare, particularly to those belonging to underprivileged and economically weaker section of the society.
Shrivastava acknowledged the contribution of Bank to van vihar with gratitude and made mention of Golf Cart donated by the Bank in the past and also expressed thanks for State Bank's continuous support under tiger adoption scheme of the van vihar.
Also present on the occasion was Pooja Thakur, Deputy General Manager and Circle Development Officer.