Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 16: Punjab National Bank (PNB), Branch Aghore and Akhnoor organized a Mega Agriculture Credit Camp during the special agriculture credit campaign.
The camp was attended by large number of farmers from Aghore and Akhnoor and officials of the Agriculture Department, where various ongoing schemes of the bank for providing cheaper credit under agriculture scheme were explained to the participants.
On the occasion, the chief guest was Bikram Singh Raina, DGM of PNB, who while speaking explained the various credit schemes for the welfare of the farming community.
He urged the farmers to avail the benefit of these schemes which provide finance at cheaper rates to the farming community and urged them about the need for timely repayment to reap the benefit of cheaper finance being provided by the bank.
On the occasion, 97 sanction letters amounting Rs 1 crore were disbursed to the farmers.
The gathering was also addressed by AL Pandita, Senior Manager, PNB, Akhnoor, Vijay Singh, Manager, Aghore Branch, Mangal Singh Kudana, Agriculture Officer of PNB, NK Lander, Senior Manager from Circle Office, Jammu and Sarpanch Dhanu Nashatter Singh.