CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, District Magistrate Manish Bansal chaired a meeting of the District Level Review Committee and District Advisory Committee in the new auditorium located in the Collectorate. In the meeting, DM Manish Bansal expressed strong displeasure over the banks with low CD ratio in the district and directed to increase the CD ratio. He expressed strong displeasure over the State Bank of India not improving its working style even after warning and again talked about writing a DO letter to the higher officials and the government. He directed that banks should show interest in giving loans in government schemes. He said that all bank representatives should come to the meeting with complete information. He instructed all bank representatives to ensure that all pending cases are resolved. He said that all banks should work positively and become result-oriented. To increase the CD ratio, set a target and prepare an action plan and ensure to work. District Magistrate Manish Bansal said that the economic prosperity of the common man will come only from small loans given by banks, so that we can achieve our goal of economic progress. Ensure that the benefits of the public welfare schemes of the Central and State Government reach the beneficiaries as per the intention of the government. While giving instructions to all the banks, he said that the general public should be made aware of the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and the benefits of the schemes should be explained to them and they should be covered. He expressed displeasure over the low loan distribution after approval of the applications given for the schemes by the bank representatives. He gave strict instructions that the loan related files should not be kept pending unnecessarily. DM Manish Bansal instructed to ensure that the compliance report of the instructions given in each meeting is presented in the next meeting. He instructed that all street vendors should be provided QR codes and they should be motivated for digital transactions. He instructed to issue a show cause notice to the District Horticulture Officer for being absent from the meeting and not providing the information related to the department on time. LDM Praveen Jamuar assured the District Magistrate that all banks would ensure that the instructions given by him are followed strictly.
RBI representative Jagjit Singh Kalra informed that under the Financial Literacy Week, camps would be organised by all banks from 24th to 28th February in the district whose main theme would be women empowerment. Chief Development Officer Sumit Rajesh Mahajan, DC NRLM Indrapal Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Industries VK Kaushal along with representatives of all banks and officers of the concerned departments were present in the meeting.