Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 3: With a view to make people aware about the banking services and basic finance management, J&K Bank conducted various financial literacy camps in Poonch, Budgam and Kupwara districts in the last few weeks.
In Poonch, the bank’s FLCC Center organized a camp at village Bhatadurian of Block Balakote that witnessed participation of the various cross section of society. Facilitator FLCC Poonch informed the people about the benefits of banking linkage and asked them to open their accounts in the nearest Business unit of Banks.
Another such camp was conducted at Government Higher Secondary Institute (Boys) Surankote, which was presided over by Principal of the school and was attended by the students and staff of the school. Meanwhile, RSETI Poonch conducted a 21-days training programme on “Dress Designing for Women”, in which 24 unemployed youth from 12 villages were imparted training.
In Budgam, the FLCC center Budgam organized a financial literacy camp at Boys Higher Secondary School (Budgam). A large number of students along with the faculty members participated in the camp, wherein the Facilitator FLCC Budgam educated the students about Saving Bank Account Schemes introduced by the Bank which cater to the requirements of student community drawing scholarships from the Government.
The District Development Manager, NABARD, also apprised the participants about various income generating schemes under farm sector and self employment activities.
Similar camps were also conducted at Elite Educational and Skill Development Institute Budgam and in Village Hayatpora, Nagam.
In Kupwara, an awareness camp was organized at Darpora Lolab in collaboration with Lead Bank and Cluster Office Kupwara where in a large number of people participated. Facilitator Kupwara while welcoming the participants apprised them about the importance and the purpose of such camps while Cluster Head gave a detailed account of various people friendly deposit and loan schemes offered by the Bank.
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