Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 5: J&K Grameen Bank organised D-FLAP (Going Digital) at village Chak Chimna, tehsil Bishnah, district Jammu under the Branch Office Rehal Dhamalian.
Micro Finance and Financial Inclusion Department under the chairmanship of R.K Chhibber in collaboration with NABARD organized Digital-Financial Literacy Awareness Programme at village Chak Chimna tehsil Bishnah, district Jammu under the Branch Office Rehal Dhamalian.
K.L. Sharma, Regional Manager Regional Office Jammu, Grameen Bank, was the chief guest on the occasion. He informed the people about developments in banking sector and latest schemes. The participants were informed regarding various modes of getting cashless transactions from banks, the safeguards to be kept in mind to 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 Aaadhar seeding and mobile seeding with their respective saving bank accounts which is need of the hour for the banking sector.
Abha Kotwal, Manager Umeed Bishnah, was the guest of honour on the occasion. He appreciated the efforts of the bank towards social security schemes and applauded that the bank is making extraordinary efforts to make the national programme of social schemes a big success.
Vipan Gupta, senior Manager, MF&FI Department, J&K Grameen Bank, highlighted that the programme intends to impact the gathering regarding digitisation by educating the people about the benefits of digital banking and a cash less 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 of such facilities.
He also stressed upon the PMSBY & PMJJBY death claims process and the need of using various applications of the bank for getting cashless transactions and also highlighted the importance of cashless transactions that shall not only save time of the customers, reduce their wait times in the bank but shall give boost to direct revenues of the Government in the shape of tax collections utilised for development of villages.
Representatives of Line Departments like KVIB, Animal Husbandry also attended the programme.
Sonu Kumar, Branch Head Rehal Dhamalian, emphasized on various facilities of the Bank.