Under ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’, Vijaya Bank in association with Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Wednesday organised a day-long camp in Saddu locality to open savings accounts of the residents.
The savings accounts of as many as 150 slum-dwellers who recently relocated in the Saddu locality in the flats allotted to them under BSUP Scheme were opened.
RMC Additional Commissioner, Dr JR Soni and the civic body’s livelihood Development Expert, Sangeeta Thakur distributed bank passbooks among the beneficiaries.
While informing the gathering about benefits of the scheme, Soni said that the scheme has been started with a target to provide ‘universal access to banking facilities’ starting with basic banking account with overdraft facility of Rs 5000 after six months and RuPay Debit card with inbuilt accident insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh and RuPay Kisan Card.
In the next phase, Micro Insurance and Pension etc. will also be added for the benefits of the customers.