Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: Financial Inclusion & Insurance Department of J&K Grameen Bank (JKGB) under the chairmanship of Janak Raj Angural organized 63 Financial Literacy & Awareness programmes under RBI’s promoted Financial Literacy Week from June 3-7.
All the six Regional Offices (RO) of the bank were involved in the conduction of these camps.
Out of these 63 camps; RO Jammu conducted 20, RO Kathua/Samba 9, RO Rajouri/Poonch 8, RO Bandipora 10, RO Baramulla 10 & RO Kupwara 6, thereby, completing coverage of 114 villages on the first two days of the Financial Literacy Week.
Safoora Begum, Sarpanch, one of the chief guests at a camp held at village Draba under Branch Office Dool, welcomed the gathering and impressed upon them to make best use of available credit services especially for rural sector like KCC crop loan, dairy loan etc in accordance to their need and requirement.
Besides talking over major social security schemes, she also spread awareness about various types of fraudulent activities prevalent in the market to dupe innocent people of their hard earned monies.
An amount of Rs. 2 lakh towards claim under PMJJBY was also disbursed to the nominee on this occasion.
Chander Kumar, Branch Head (Dool) JKGB talked in brief about various social security schemes like APY, PMSBY, PMJJBY etc and positive change these have brought in our day to day lives.
He encouraged the gathering to approach the Grameen Bank and avail hassle free and reasonable loans under various schemes like KCC, PMEGP etc for their overall growth & development.
Representatives of Line Departments like KVIB, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Education and NRLM also attended the programme besides the huge gathering of students and farmers of the villages.
Other branch heads at their respective locations spread the message of financial literacy and awareness among the population of remote villages.
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