The bank to provide better banking facilities at villages
In a move to provide better banking facilities to the people living in remote areas of the State, Jharkhand State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC), General Manager, Vikram Keshari Mishra on Friday adopted Resham Village at Getalsud Panchayat, under Anagada Block and Village Area-Keram at Tundahuli Panchayat under Ormanjhi Block in Ranchi district during a Gram Sabha which was organized by Getalsud Branch and Ormanjhi branch of Bank of India (BoI).
SLBC is committed to provide all banking facilities like financial inclusion, social security schemes, credit-flow, digital-banking and others in all the blocks of all the districts of the State. Under the aegis of the SLBS striving in this direction, at least one village in all 264 blocks of the State has been identified by banks to ensure all banking facilities in that village by adopting villages.
The objective of this scheme is to provide 100 per cent basic banking facilities to all 264 villages with the help of banks by March 2022.
Mishra informed that on the basis of today's program, efforts are being made by the State Level Bankers Committee for the goal of providing all basic banking in the villages of Jharkhand in a planned manner.
In this program, information about various schemes sponsored by banks such as Financial Inclusion, Digital Banking, Social Security Scheme, Atal Pension Yojana and various loan schemes like Kisan Credit Card, Self Help Group, Mudra Loan, Agricultural Vehicle was given to all the villagers and various Under the schemes, 182 applications were created and loan applications of 40 villagers were created and loans of ` 35.85 lakh were sanctioned.
The details of villages adopted by various banks in the State are the name of the bank adopted number of villages as Bank of India (BoI)-96, Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank (JRGB)- 58, State Bank of India (SBI)- 52, Indian Bank-13, Punjab National Bank (PNB)-11, Canara Bank-8, Bank of Baroda (BoB)-8, Central Bank of India (CBI)-7, Union Bank of India (UBI)-7, UCO Bank-3, Bank of Maharashtra- 1
A large number of villagers were present in the above program including leading district managers, Ranchi, BoI, Getalsud branch and Ormanjhi branch, public representatives of both the villages, progressive farmers of the district, chiefs and others.