 Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Dec 30: National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) organized two Financial Literacy Programmes in Kishtwar. One in the morning at Industrial Training Institute (ITI) and other in the afternoon, at Pioneer Institute, Kishtwar. NABARD was represented by Adarsh Gupta (DDM, NABARD) and the guests on the occasions include: Dinesh Gupta (LDO, RBI), Satish Gupta (LDM, SBI) along with others.
Both the programmes were focused on imparting financial education to student community so as to give them a view of the financial system of India, so that they get benefited by utilizing the various financial services. They were informed and motivated to save, especially with bank, with reasons for; why to save, where to save, how to save.
Further various saving schemes like saving accounts, recurring deposits, term deposits were explained to them for their benefits. Also, the recent programme of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna and its benefits like insurance, overdraft were explained. Besides theses, various loan schemes were informed to them especially education loan so that no deserving student is left behind in education just because of lack of awareness about the financial support available from banks. |
