Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 21: J&K Grameen Bank organized D-Flap (Going Digital) at villages Kirpind & Prithpur(unbanked area) tehsil-RS Pura, district-Jammu under Branch Offices Kirpind & Kotli Mian Fateh respectively.
Micro Finance and Financial Inclusion Department under the chairmanship of R.K Chhibber in collaboration with NABARD organized Digital-Financial Literacy Awareness Programmes at villages Kirpind & Prithpur (unbanked area) Tehsil-RS Pura, district-Jammu under Branch Offices Kirpind & Kotli Mian Fateh respectively.
S.P. Choudhary, Manager Regional Office, Jammu, J&K Grameen Bank was the chief guest on the occasion. He informed people about developments in banking sector and latest schemes. The participants were informed regarding various modes of getting cashless transactions from banks, various safeguards to be kept in mind in order to be aware and prevent cases of cheating/ corruption while availing different banking facilities with special reference to use of ATM cards, mobile banking etc. People were educated about the Aadhaar seeding and mobile seeding with their respective saving bank accounts which is need of the hour for the banking sector.
Vidya Sagar, Branch Head Kotli Mian Fateh, J&K Grameen Bank, highlighted that the programme intends to impact the gathering regarding digitalisation by educating the people about the benefits of digital banking and a cash less economy. He highlighted that with our thrust on enabling an impactful mind set changes towards cash to cashless economy. He enlightened people and students about new technologies available in the bank such as 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 laid emphasis on adoption of social security schemes launched by GoI on war footing; that shall ameliorate the lot of unorganised sector that remain deprived from such facilities.
Representatives of Line Departments like KVIB, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Education and NRLM also attended the programme. At least 200 women were present, besides the huge gathering Sarpanch Ranjeet Singh, Shard Chand Dubey, Panchs and other dignitaries of the villages were also present during the occasion.
Dhruv, Assistant Manager Regional Office Jammu, emphasized on various facilities of the bank. He described the problems faced by the general public due to the unawareness of the availability of simple digital and cashless transaction methods.
Gurmeet Kour, Manager Kirpind, informed about various lending schemes tailored by the bank for general public available on easy EMIs.
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