Member of Parliament, Garhwal, Maj Gen (Rtd) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri launched the Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana in a camp hosted in the Srinagar municipal council premises in Pauri district on Thursday. Twenty different banks, including HDFC, Syndicate bank, SBI, PNB, ICICI, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Almora Urban Bank, Uttarakhand Gramin Bank and Nainital banks had their camps staged for opening the accounts under the scheme. These twenty banks had opened 12,911 saving accounts in all under the scheme in course of these camps in Srinagar. A large number of interested people were seen thronging around these banks in rural areas in Pauri district. Addressing such a camp, Khanduri thanked all the banks for coming forward to open accounts of thousands within a short span of time. He hoped that with the cooperation of banks, the number of saving accounts being opeed under the scheme will increase in the rural areas.