A Block Level Bank Credit Mela was held on Friday at Komna with ZP President Namita Pradhan as chief guest. Four hundred women Self-Help Groups of Komna block were given Rs 5,49,64,000 interest-free loans under the Mission Shakti programme.
Several elected panchayat representatives like ZP Vice-President Bhanupratp Singh Majhi and Komna Block Chairman Manoj Kumar Mishra were guests of honour, who encouraged the women groups for activities such as electric bill collection, MDM distribution, poultry, paddy procurement and pisciculture, etc.
The women groups can also involve themselves in various training programmes, schemes and different women empowerment activities of the Government, they said.
Amongst officials present were Nuapada DSWO Bidyutlata Patra, Komna SBI Branch Manager Manas Ranjan Bag, DPC, MS Rama Tandi and DMSC, MS Narmada Behera.
Dhaniram Sabar, Sampad Kumar Dash, Bijaya Bhitria and Smruti Ranjan Panigrahi put their efforts to make the event a success.