The district administration has decided to open two bank accounts for each family residing in the district to help them avail the benefits of various Government-run schemes.
As per the guidelines issued in this regard, one of the bank account will have to be opened in the name of female member of the family.Collector Niranjan Das had already held a meeting to ensure better implementation of the scheme. In order to implement the scheme, all villages of the district have been divided into 90 clusters while each cluster will have 1,000 to 1,500 families.
All the banks have been assigned the task of opening bank account of the families residing in the district.During the meeting, it was informed that all the bank accounts will be open on zero balance and it will not be mandatory to deposit money to operate the account. The banks will appoint a Business Correspondent as their representative in each cluster to provide banking facilities to the villagers.
The Collector asked CEO of Janpand Panchayats to encourage the villagers to open their bank accounts and take the bank officials help in it.SDOs were asked to review progress of the work on weekly basis. On Zila Panchayat level, the Programme Officer of MGNREGA will review the work. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Narendra Pandey, Deputy Zonal Manager of Dena Bank, all the sub-divisional officers and CEOs of Janpand Panchayats were present in the meeting.