CCB celebrates Cooperative Week

Excelsior Correspondent

Registrar Cooperative Societies and Chairman CCB handing over keys of the Van and Scooty, during Cooperative Week celebration on Monday.
Registrar Cooperative Societies and Chairman CCB handing over keys of the Van and Scooty, during Cooperative Week celebration on Monday.

JAMMU, Nov 17: During the  on going celebrations of  61st Cooperative Week in the  State,  a function was organized  by the Citizens’ Cooperative Bank Ltd  Jammu in its  branch premises   at R S Pura  where  Basharat Saleem, Registrar Cooperative Societies, J&K, was   the chief guest.
The Registrar highlighted  the role  of employees   at gross   root level  to uplift   the cooperative institutions and exhorted the CCB management to extend   hassle free  services   to their members.  He also assured full cooperation    and support   to the societies  for their further  expansion and progress.
Earlier, Dinesh Gupta  gave a brief  of the  working of  cooperative sector  and challenges   being faced  by this sector  to sustain in this era  of competition. He informed that  all the branches of the CCB are fully computerized   under CCB for providing hassle free services  to the customers fulfilling  their  banking needs.
Dinesh Gupta  further informed that  during his tenure,  the share capital   of the bank has increased from  Rs 5.40 crores  to Rs 7.40 crores and its  NPA has been decreased from Rs 32 crores  to Rs 25 crores.  He  requested  the Registrar Coop  Societies   to expedite  the pending cases under Arbitration in  different courts of the Cooperatives   at an earliest.
The celebration started   with the  chief guest  handing over keys of a Van and a Scooty, instantly  financed by  the  Bank  to  Gurmeet Singh  and  Sunil Aggarwal in the presence  of  CCB Chairman   Dinesh Gupta and others.
Deepak Gupta, Vice-Chairman CCB;    Koushal Kumar Gupta,  Director;   Parshotam Singh Pawar, Director;   Anjana Tikoo, Addl  Registrar Cooperative Societies  Jammu;   Trishla Kumari, Joint Registrar Cooperative Societies (Special); Ashu Kumari,  Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies (LDB) and  Tanveer Iqbal Malik, Joint Registrar (Audit) Cooperative Societies  were also present on the  occasion.
Proceedings  of the  function were conducted by Ashok Goswamy, Managing Director of the bank while   Kuldeep Kumar Gupta, General Manager  presented a welcome address.