Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 19: J&K Bank conducted awareness-cum-training camp at Kangan Ganderbal, which was organized by Lead Bank Office Ganderbal in collaboration with ITI Kangan.
Trainees and the teaching staff of the institute besides Lead District Manager and officials from the bank’s Kangan branch, RSETI Ganderbal and Government agencies including EDI were present on the occasion.
Facilitator FLCC Ganderbal Reyaz Ahmad Kawoosa welcomed the participants and spoke about advantages of saving with banks besides borrowings from banks under various loan schemes especially Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana.
LDM Ganderbal Faiz Ullah Qureshi apprised audience about the features of various deposit and loan schemes, various modes of remittances, debit and credit card facilities and various Government sponsored schemes.
Superintendent ITI Ghulam Nabi Shah and expressed his views.
Meanwhile, the bank conducted various financial literacy camps in Shopian during the last many weeks. The Bank’s Financial Literacy and Credit Counseling Centre Shopian organized a mega awareness camp in Melhora village of Shopian which has been selected under Sansad Adharsh Gram Yojna (SAGY) programme as a model village.
Speaking on the occasion, Cluster Head Shopian informed the participants about advantages of savings with banks. He also spoke about PMJDY, PMMY and other Government sponsored schemes.
At a camp organized in RSETI Shopian, Facilitator FLCC Shopian MA Jan educated the trainees regarding procedures on how to approach banks for finance to promote and establish their business enterprises. He informed them social security schemes.
Six more such camps were organized across the district at various places during the last few weeks.
However, 6-day ‘Entrepreneurship Development Programme’ under PMEGP scheme sponsored by KVIC, KVIB and DIC concluded at Rural Self Employment Training Institute Poonch, wherein 40 unemployed youth from various villages of the district were imparted training.
The bank’s Cluster Head Poonch Ghulam Ahmed Jeelani Dar was chief guest at the valediction function.
He had an interactive session with the participants wherein he explained them the needs for adopting self employment in the present scenario and assured them of financial assistance from the Bank.
Cluster Head distributed the certificates of participation among the trainees.
Director RSETI Ayub Ahmad Khuroo presented vote of thanks.
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