RBI is heading towards rural

Foregoing the concept of air-conditioning conference hall, the capital based RBI has decided to include rural pockets to create awareness among the villagers on the role and functioning of the banking sector and appeal them to avail banking services to make their living comfortable. The RBI has also decided to open farmers’ club to make the farmers nearer to the banking sectors.

“2010 being the platinum year of RBI, we decided to go to rural area to create awareness among the villagers about the services of the banking sector and how they would make their living comfortable by availing the banking services”, the regional director of RBI, Bhubanewar Kaza Sudhakar told while addressing the gathering at a function organized in the Maneswar High School, 15 km away from here on Wednesday.

Sources said, RBI identified ‘Gulunda’ village of Maneswar block in Sambalpur district as a ‘model village’ and a farmers club was inaugurated in the village during the visit of its regional director on Wednesday.

“We formulated several programmes for the benefit of the rural and poor people but due to lack of awareness and lack of information the people do not get these facilities. Now by organizing such programmes in rural area our aim is to make people aware of these facilities”, AGM of Reserve bank of India Manisha Mishra told.

Sources said, RBI has a banking ‘Ombudsman scheme’ where people can get a faster service incase of any dispute regarding banking dispute. “We have this scheme to decide dispute related to banking service and our aim is to give faster service to the people by deciding the dispute immediately”, Regional director RBI, Sudhakar told.

“It is a good gesture of the RBI to organize platinum year function in a rural area of Sambalpur district. We hope people of the rural area will be closer with banking sector after getting knowledge about the Reserve Bank of India. We thank the RBI officials for such a noble thought”, the AGM of State Bank of India N C Kanungo told.