Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 23: Financial Inclusion & Insurance Department of J&K Grameen Bank under the chairmanship of Janak Raj Angural and in collaboration with NABARD conducted Financial Literacy programmes at unbanked villages Nagri, Kukechak and Bhaga Chak in district Kathua.
Des Raj Baru, Agriculture Extension Officer, who was chief guest on the occasion, highlighted various schemes offered to the farmers by the bank and appreciated the contribution of bank in developing the agriculture in the State.
Dev Raj Sharma, Manager Regional Office Kathua & Samba talked on cashless economy and guided people to make transactions without having cash in hand.
He enlightened people about new technologies like multiple uses of bank cheques, use of PoS machine, Rupay debit card, KCC Rupay debit card, net banking, mobile banking services, IMPS, Aadhaar based transactions etc.
He told them about the merits and demerits of using such services and precautions to be taken while utilizing such facilities and advised people not to get trapped in fake calls by fraudulent person active in the market.
R.S Jasrotia, BH Nagriparole, Varun Sharma, BH Changran, Roop Lal Sharma, BH Jakhbar at their respective programmes educated the gathering about various lending schemes tailored by the bank for general public available on easy EMIs such as Housing loan, Transport loan, Car loan, Education loan etc where rate of interest charged by the bank is very competitive.
Rupay debit cards were also distributed to the customers.
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