The regional office of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at Thiruvananthapuram conducted special outreach programmes in 11 villages of Kerala and at 1 village in Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
The programme envisages the development of identified villages as model villages in terms of availability of banking facilities and services through a variety of channels such as bank branches, satellite branches, mobile banking, and business correspondent-cum-biometric card model.
Special focus was placed on delivery of banking services with the application of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions through the banking correspondent-cum-biometric card model to maximise outreach of the banking facilities.
The programmes were conducted at Chellanam (Ernakulam district), Muthukulam (Alappuzha), Akathethara (Palakkad), Vallikkunnu (Malappuram), Minicoy (Lakshadweep), Krishnagiri (Wayanad), Pavoor (Kasaragod), Vimalagiri (Idukki), Kareepra (Kollam), Vellarvalli (Kannur), Perumanna (Kozhikode) and Thonoorkara (Thrissur).