Early Times Report
Poonch, Mar 14 : District Development Manager, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Rajouri, Des Raj today organised an awareness workshop on "establishment of Agri-clinic /Agri-business centres" at Poonch.National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is implementing Government of India, capital subsidy scheme "Establishment of Agri-clinic/Agri-business centres" through banks.The workshop, as per the release was attended by Mohd. Shafi Ayaz, Lead District Manager, Gulam Jilani Dar, Cluster Head, J&K Bank, Riyaz Hassan Baba, Director, J&K Bank-RSETI, B.S. Dutta, District Manager, The Jammu Central Cooperative Bank, Kuldeep Sharma, District Coordinator among other officers .The workshop was also attended by the branch managers of J&K Bank, J&K Grameen Bank and the Jammu Central Cooperative Bank from district Poonch. Des Raj, District Development Manager, NABARD, explained the objective of holding the workshop on Agri-Clinic/Agri-Business Centres. He informed that objective of the scheme is to supplement the efforts of public extension by necessarily providing extension and other services to the farmers on payment basis and also to create gainful self employment opportunities to unemployed agricultural graduates. |
