With a view to encourage financial inclusion through banking services, the Haryana government today asked bankers to help Scheduled Caste (SC) people including in Mirchpur village for their rehabilitation.
"Bankers should adopt proactive approach for financial inclusion of SC people living in villages like Mirchpur and other places and help them in engaging in some sort of work," Haryana Additional Chief Secretary (Social Justice and Empowerment) Sunil Gulati said while addressing a State-Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) meeting held here today.
Later, Gulati said, "I gave my idea to bankers that they can play proactive role for the rehabilitation of SC people in villages like Mirchpur."
Mirchpur village in Hisar district of Haryana had hit the headlines in year 2010 when some people from the dominant upper caste community had allegedly set fire to houses of dalit.
A 70-year-old man and his 18-year-old
physically-challenged daughter were also killed in the fire and over 150 dalit families had fled the village and had taken shelter at a temple in Delhi.
As per SLBC report, to ensure banking services either through brick and mortar branches or banking correspondent model, banks in Haryana were allocated 4,077 villages with population below 2,000.
Report said banks have covered 3,988 villages so far under Financial Inclusion Plan.
Meanwhile, Punjab National Bank, ED, K V Brahmaji Rao who is the Chairperson of the SLBC meeting said since launch of Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) in 2014 with an objective to "Reach the Un-reached" to provide banking facilities and financial services to a vast majority of low income population, banks have opened 46,80,624 accounts upto June, 2015 and garnered an amount of Rs719.19 crore under this scheme.
Out of 46,80,624 accounts, 21,56,508 accounts of women have been opened and Rupay Cards have been issued in 37,16,630 accounts which is 79 per cent of the total accounts opened.
While reviewing the performance of the banks for the review period from 1st July, 2014 to 30 June, 2015 under various key parameters, Rao informed the Banking System in Haryana achieved all the national goals during period under review.
The total deposits of Commercial Banks/RRBs increased to Rs 2,20,979 crore as on June , 2015 from Rs 1,90,444 crore as on June, 2014 thus showing an increase of 16 per cent.
The Total Advances during the review period increased to Rs 1,82,662 crore registering a growth of 15 per cent.
