Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 21: Chief General Manager (CGM) NABARD J&K Dr AK Sood flagged off two Mobile ATM Vans provided by NABARD to Anantnag Central Cooperative Bank Limited (ACCB) under grant based Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF) of NABARD, from head office of ACCB Anantnag.
The flag off was done in the presence of Managing Director cum CEO of ACCB Muzaffar Sultan, Deputy General Manager NABARD Surinder Singh, District Development Manager NABARD Rouf Zargar and other senior officials. The flag off was followed by a financial literacy camp held at Seer Hamdan village which was attended by large number of people.
On the occasion, Dr Sood stated that NABARD has been supporting the rural financial institutions such as Cooperative Banks and Regional Rural Banks with such initiatives to spread financial enhance digital literacy and offering door step banking services to the rural people in remote locations.
He said that Government of India has been placing a special focus on spread of digital financial literacy and NABARD has been tasked to promote this mission through Rural Financial Institutions by supporting them with financial literacy camps and mobile vans for reaching out to far off areas.
It is pertinent to mention that NABARD has sanctioned a grant of Rs 30 lakh to Anantnag Central Cooperative Bank for deployment of two digital literacy vans to serve the rural people in districts under operation.
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