The State Bank of India, Athagarh main branch, held a "My Village My Bank" programme in Gudupada village on Friday.
Guests like General Manager Poonambalam M, Regional Manager Pranati Satapathy, Assistant Collector Prajnaparamita Prusty, CDPO Ritanjali Pradhan, Sarpanch Kabiraj Sahoo, village head Pratap Ghatual, AGM Agri LHO Sudhiranjan Mohanty, CM Chandra Shekhar Das, CMBD Kirti Kant Swain and DBM Subhransu Behera attended the programme.
The villagers took the guests in a grand procession from the village end by blowing traditional drums, conch etc with throwing up of flowers and turmeric powder mixed rice. Several women SHGs had opened their stalls at the meeting ground.
Chief Guest Poonambalam said that the programme was being celebrated throughout the country by the SBI. All other guests spoke on the importance of programme and how the bank was coming to the villagers to help all categories of farmers.
The guests distributed cheques of some loan amount to different SHGs, farmers on different schemes and awarded some of them for their excellent work in achieving the goals and timely repayment of loan taken from the bank.
A grand cultural programme including a magic show by Sudhanshu Das and melody songs by Babul Das followed. The guests attended a dinner party with the villagers at the meeting ground. Chief Manager Chandra Shekhar Das coordinated.