The State Bank of India, Bhubaneswar circle funded construction of toilets in 37 schools in Boudh district under the Swachh Vidyalaya Mission.
The toilets were constructed by the Ruchika Social Service Organisation, an NGO, on behalf of the SBI. Finance Minister Pradip Amat handed over the keys of these toilets to respective school authorities at a special function held at Boudh on Wednesday.
Districe Collector Madhusudan Mishra and SBI CGM B Venu Gopala Reddy, General Manager Ananta Kumar Chowdhury, Regional Manager Manoj Kumar Satpathy and Ruchika Social Service Organisation secretary Prof Narayan Rao were present.
The SBI had planned to construct toilets in 42 schools of Boudh district. Toilet construction in the rest five schools would begin very soon. The SBI would maintain these toilets for two years, said an official release.
CGM Reddy said the SBI is the first corporate to complete the construction of toilets 100 per cent, whatever was allotted to them earlier.
He informed that the SBI has so far opened 22.87 lakh accounts under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and registered 8.57 lakh applications under the Pradhan Mantri Surakhya Bima Yojana in Odisha. Similarly, it has registered 1.88 lakh persons under the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and 15,658 under the Atal Pension Yojana.