A total of 73 lakh women account holder from the State under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY) will get Rs 500 per month for three months in their accounts from this month of April to meet their essential requirements during the ongoing lockdown which will continue till April, 14.
There is a total of 1.33 crore bank account holders in the State under PMJDY scheme, out of which 73 lakh are women account holders.
State Level Bankers’ Committee, Deputy General Manager, Sanjib Sarkar said that in order to help fight against the global epidemic COVID-19, the Central Government launched the 'Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana' (PMGKY) for the poor. "Under this scheme, the account holder under PMJDY will get Rs 500 in their bank account every month for the next three months for the women account holders. The amount will be distributed by the Central Government, so that the women account holder could not face difficulties in purchasing the necessary thins and other requirements," he added.
“Keeping in mind the transition of Coronavirus, a meeting was held with the high officials of RBI, NABARD, SLBC, SBI, BoI on Wednesday under the chairmanship of the State Chief Secretary, of the State. Based on the decisions taken in this meeting, the SLBC has issued appropriate guidelines for all the banks, payment banks, small finance banks and LDMs in the State to ensure smooth withdrawal of money with following guidelines of social distance of PMJDY women account holders, all account holders have been separated on the basis of the last digit of their account number," said Sarkar.
The DGM further said that all Jan Dhan women account holders whose last digit of the account is 0 or 1 will get on April 3, from 2 to 3 will get April 4, from 4 to 5 will get April 7, from 6 and 7 will get on April 8 and from 8 and 9 will get on April 9.
"Separate days have been set for women account holders of PMJDY to ensure that bank branches, should not be over crowded and people maintain social distance. All the account holders have been requested by the State Government and SLBC to withdraw the above amount only when required and other alternative means such as Bank Mitra and ATMs should be used more. Account holders who are not able to withdraw their funds on the above dates, can withdraw on any other day after April 09," said Sarkar.
Umbrellas, masks and globs were distributed by the Bank of India, National Banking Group to traffic and general policemen dutifully running from Ranchi Firayalal Chowk to Doranda. On this occasion, General Meanwhile, Manager of Bank of India, National Banking Group, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, Ravindra Kumar Das, Deputy General Manager Prabhakar Das, SLBC Deputy General Manager Sanjib Sarkar, Surendra Kumar, Sunil Kumar and other officers were present.