The Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) celebrated its 72nd foundation day on Wednesday by holding blood donation camps, distribution of stretches and wheel chairs to the disabled in its branches.
The Deputy General Manager of OBC, S K Dhal informed the media persons at Dehradun regional office that the bank aims to take its total business to 7.50 lakh crores by the year 2018.
One of the leading public sector banks, OBC was set up in the year 1942; at the time of nationalisation of banks on April 15, 1980, the bank had 307 branches with a total business of `435 crores. The Bank now has 2,105 branches with an annual business of `3.16 lakh crores and has 1,897 ATMs in the country. In Uttarakhand, the bank has 67 branches out of which 22 are in rural areas.
The DGM said that apart from banking activities, OBC is also adhering to the social causes. He said that seven blood donation camps were organised on the foundation day in the State and 230 units of blood was collected in these camps. He said that the bank operates an intervention centre at Harbartpur in Dehradun where the differently able (handicapped) children are given education; to take these students to school the bank officials donated an electric rickshaw.
He said that bank had also donated ceiling fans, sweaters, schools bags in 80 schools of the state, and all the employees of the bank contributed their one days pay in the Prime Minister's relief fund for the disaster victims of the state. Dhal said that the bank has taken a target to open one lakh new accounts on the foundation day and under vision 2018 bank would increase its branches to 3,000.