The Pauri District Magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt directed all bankers to make efforts to meet the set target, increase credit-deposit ratio, appoint business representatives and open 704752 no frill accounts. He said this while monitoring the performance of banks at the District level coordination and monitoring committee at district headquarter Pauri on Thursday.
In the meeting, the lead bank officer Jitendra Pal Singh said that 28 business representatives had been appointed by different banks in 248 villages and these representatives are giving full information about the various bank services to the public. He asked the bankers to appoint business representatives by July 31. In the first quarter the banks have opened 7000 no frill accounts and efforts are being made to open the accounts of BPl card holders. Stating that the present credit-deposit ratio in the district is 27.15 per cent, he asked all bankers to make efforts to increase the CD ratio to 40 percent as desired by the district magistrate. He informed that 248 applications were received by different banks under village house scheme and out of these 150 were sanctioned. The banks sanctioned Rs18 lakh for 13 applicants under the purview of Pauri municipality. Under the special component plan, banks received 60 applications of SC and ST persons with Rs49.85 lakh being released to 58 applicants. Under Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Tourism scheme, Rs377.81 lakh has been given to 28 beneficiaries under the vehicle and non vehicle plan. loan amounting to Rs3,064.65 lakh has been given to 1970 members of minority communities while Rs1,0325.42 lakh loan has been given to 6725 women groups. RBI representative S Thakur, NABARD AGM Vijendra Negi, SBI GM Mahesh Chandra, CDO Navneet Pandey, DDO Ved Prakash and officers of different banks of the district were present in the meeting.