Chief Minister Harish Rawat has formally inaugurated nine branches of Canara Bank at Chief Minister residence on Thursday. In his address CM said that if is good omen that bank is opening nine branches on the occasion of Navratra. He disclosed that he had opened his first account in canara bank so the bank touches his heart all the time.
He also suggested that bank should also focus on social responsibility besides their commercial objective.
Canara bank CM U Ramesh Kumar apprised that canara bank has decided to inaugurate their nine branches in Uttarakhand. In which three in pauri districts including Balbhadrapur, Farsaadi and Bhairoli; three in Almora districts including Pipli, Barkinda and Kakarkhet and one each in Nainital, Raipur and Kichha. Other officials including DGM Jagjit singh, AGM NS Nagaraju and Prakash Pradhan, DM Santosh Kumar Mahapatra, BD Kujur and lalit Mohan were present there.
Kumar further said that Canara Bank, managing more than Rs. 7,32,000 Crore of total business and has a robust network of over 5250 fully computerized CBS branches and more than 6500 ATMs across the country, is offering unique and user-friendly products to serve the public.
Currently the bank has network of 64 branches and 79 ATMs under it’s Dehradun Circle covering entire Uttrakhand State. Recently, our Bank has also established a Camp Office at Rudrapur specially for accelerating it’s expansion drive in the Kumaon region. With opening of 9 new branches today we have opened 23 new branches during this financial year. We have planed to open 14 more new branches to take our tally to 87 branches and 100 ATMs by the end of this financial year covering all the districts of Uttrakhand State
Many financial inclusion branches of the Bank are established at some most remote locations in the state, where it is difficult to get even the required regular connectivity and branches are working with the help of VSAT technology.
Target given by SlBC to open financial inclusion branches till March 2016 in the state of Uttarakhand has already been achieved by our Bank and we are proud to be the first among peer banks to accomplish this task.