The Nainital district administration has asked the officials concerned to ensure 100 pc of households open bank accounts by December 20 across the district. At the same time, it has also appointed 19 nodal officers to monitor implementation of the ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’ in the district.
The bankers are supposed to launch door to door campaign to open bank accounts of the people. More so, they are also advised to organise camps in the remote areas, to provide people with the bank accounts, said the district administration. At the same time, the officials concerned have been asked to link the newly-opened bank accounts with the Aadhar cards of the bank account holders concerned.
Bank officials have also been asked to organise financial awareness camps in their respective areas to make people aware about different banking schemes, including different loan schemes like Kisan Credit Card, crop loan, and education loan, to name a few. More so, the bankers are also supposed to inform the people about the ‘Jan dhan Yojana’ in these financial awareness camps. The district administration, Nainital said that action would be taken against those bankers, who fail to achieve targets in terms of opening bank accounts.
According to the officials concerned of the Nainital district administration, about 98,532 bank accounts have been opened under the ‘Jan dhan Yojana’ so far in the district.