Extending its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm for the girls residing in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalyas functional in Jharkhand the Bank of India has decided to spend ` 4 crore for to providing toilets for them. In the endeavour total 80 toilets would be constructed spreading in 22 districts of the State.
“Bank of India has undertaken the job of construction of toilets in 80 KGBVs of 24 districts of the State which is another step in the direction of our commitment towards society that goes beyond just banking. We have selected 10-12 contractors through bidding process and by the end of February, 2016 all the toilets would be built,” said MK Gupta, General Manager of the leading bank.
Gupta further added that the task which is also on priority of the Union Government and several State Governments across the country would not end with just construction exercise. “We would build a corpus fund which would be utilised for maintaining the toilets for the period of two years which is equally important a task considering the fate of such facilities at public places,” he added. The bank for the maintenance of the toilets would deploy contractors through outsourcing.
BOI is presently the convener bank of the State level Bankers’ Committee (SlBC) in the State and operates with 492 branches and business of over Rs 36000 crore. Gupta while hinting about other CSR activities taking place in the State said that mass level plantation drives and adopting some roundabouts for maintenance are in the list of doable.
Talking about response of important Mundra scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing easy small loans for the marginalised the GM said that banks are yet to pick up it.
“So far 171630 persons have been sanctioned Mudra loans amounting over Rs 214 crore. At the same time we have some reports about hindrances getting created in sanctioning loans and we as SlBC convener have sent teams to different places for look into it. Instructions and monthly targets have been given to all bank branches. We, however, believe that it is an ongoing scheme which is sure to pick up with time. level of awareness among the banks as well as among people is still low,” said Gupta.