Chief General Manager of State Bank of India Bhopal Circle Riten Ghose handed over a cheque to Ramkrishna Ashram for purchase of cots for the use of inmates of hostel who come from poor families in their school, Vivekanand Vidyapeeth, Bhopal.
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 or droughts etc.
Speaking on the occasion Ghose said that during the year 2013-14 SBI provided 13,190 electric fans to 1,319 needy schools across the States of MP and CG. He told that 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 2807 water purifiers in equal number of schools in the Circle. During the same period Bank donated 28 ambulances worth Rs2.41 crores to NGOs operating in rural and semi urban centres of both the States to help in delivering quality healthcare, particularly to those belonging to underprivileged and economically weaker section of the-society.He said that during the fiscal 2013-14 Bank provided medical equipment at 08 centres worth Rs79.00 lakh. Also present on the occasion were Swami Krishnadhyanananda and other officials of Ramkrishna Ashram and the Bank.