A Bankers’ Meet was organised at the Samvad Bhawan on the second day of the mega seminar-cum-webinar on ‘Sustainable development: issues, strategies and future direction of Purvanchal’ at Deendayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, on Friday in which various bank officials, academicians put forth their opinions on the role of banks in the development of Purvanchal.
Cabinet Minister Suresh Khanna, who was the chief guest, presented the outline of the work done for the development of Purvanchal. He said that Purvanchal was steadily moving ahead on the path of development.
The senior minister stressed upon the banks to make proportional use of Jan Dhan Vikas Nidhi. He also appealed to the banks to arrange for at least Rs 40,000 crore for the development of Purvanchal.
At the beginning of the session, Additional Chief Secretary (Institutional Finance) Sanjeev Mittal said that bankers had an important contribution in the development of Purvanchal. He said that most of the farmers of Purvanchal were small and marginal and they required small funds for agricultural investment. He requested the bankers to give them loans according to their need on time.
Purvanchal Development Board advisor Saket Mishra said that the development plans should not just be seen on paper.
The Board co-chairman, Prof Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, welcomed the guests.
Convenor of the Bankers’ Meet, Prof Uma Shrivastava, Chairman of Purvanchal Bank, DP Grover, Allahabad Bank’s AGM Vinoy Kumar, Indian Bank DGM AK Jha, Bank of Baroda GM Brijesh Kumar Singh, SBI Regional Manager Manish Satpal, SBI Bhopal’s Avanindra Sinha were among others who were present.