To promote cashless banking transactions, the State Bank of India (SBI) with the support of NSS volunteers would create awareness among the masses across Madhya Pradesh.
While talking to media persons here on Friday, SBI CGM KT Ajit said that the work of creating awareness has been taken up following a meeting recently held at State Secretariat convened by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, to deliberate on ways to push for cashless transactions and to take up the task on campaign mode.
The NSS volunteers of colleges across the State are being imparted training in the bank and the first batch of 100 volunteers would be ready by tomorrow and they would meet people at the New Market on Saturday, he added.
The campaign will be known as Digital India Drive and will be launched by the Chief Minister on Saturday at 11 am. He informed that the Digital India Drive will be rolled out throughout the state involving five weeks initially where NSS volunteers along with bank officials will reach out to all segments of society across MP to impart digital literacy and on board people to Digital Banking. The campaign in phases will reach out to all parts of the state.
To a query, Ajit said SBI Bhopal Circle is in the forefront of digital banking and at present more than 80 per cent of transactions are done outside branches be it ATMs, Green Credit Cards, Green Remit Cards, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, e Wallets (Buddy), prepaid cards (50,000 prepaid cards issued so far), Rupay Cards (7.5 lakh Rupay cards issued to farmers and FI customers), Kiosk Banking.
Around 13.68 lakh customers use Internet Banking with average of 4 lakh transactions per day. Around 1000 customers are registering to our Mobile Banking app and approx 50,000 transactions are routed through Mobile Banking daily.
In Buddy e wallet, a comparatively recent product, merchant transactions are being done daily and our- branches are reaching out to Merchants to use this for transactions with consumers and wholesales/distributers.
We have also opened 12 SBI IN touch Branches where all of the transactions are done digitally including opening of accounts online, printing of debit cards, passbooks etc.