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Major lenders should introduce job-oriented banking courses: Amit Mitra

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Thursday said major lenders in the country should consider rolling out job-oriented courses

Amit Mitra, finance minister of Bengal, mamata banerjee govt, Bengal Business Summit 2018

Amit Mitra, West Bengal Finance & Industry Minister

Press Trust of India Kolkata

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Thursday said major lenders in the country should consider rolling out job-oriented courses.

Mitra made the comment after inaugurating Bandhan Bank Konnagar's PG Diploma Course in Banking and Finance in affiliation with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology.

This is an innovative model where students will get guaranteed jobs after successful completion of the course. I will raise this model at the state-level bankers meet and urge lenders like SBI and PNB to come up with similar efforts, he said.

The minister also said the student credit card scheme of the West Bengal government will help youths who wish to join the course.

 

Bandhan Bank has a residential learning centre in Rajpur that can accommodate 210 students.

A new centre with a capacity of 240 residential students will be launched in Shantiniketan by January 2022.

The lender has trained 600 students so far, it said.

The course has been devised keeping in mind the needs of banking in all of India and will have a special focus on rural areas, Founder Chandrasekhar Ghosh said.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Jul 30 2021 | 2:07 AM IST

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