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HDFC Bank to add 36 more branches in Kolkata

by IBNS 04 Sep 2015, 08:40 pm

Kolkata, Sep 5 (IBNS): HDFC bank is planning to add 36 more branches in West Bengal, making it to 200 branches in West Bengal by the end of this financial year.

“Presently we have 164 branches in West Bengal, out of which 16 are in unbanked locations, by the end of this financial year we look forward to add 8 to 10 more such branches in West Bengal. By the end of this financial year we expect to have 200 branches in West Bengal,” said Atul Barve, Branch Banking Head, HDFC Bank at the launch of ‘Dhanchayat’.

The bank on Friday launched a ten minutes short film ‘Dhanchayat’, to raise awareness among rural people on dangers of borrowing money from unorganised sectors.

“This film has been launched under the aegis of Swachch Banking, the bank’s latest CSR initiative. Our main aim would be to educate people by pin pointing the disadvantages of borrowing form unorganised sectors and to popularise banking services among the people in rural areas,” said Barve .

The bank also flagged off a van equipped with micro-ATMs with biometric facilities fittedin them to enable instant e-KYC and Re-KYC using Aadhar. The vans will cover villages in Howrah, Hoogly, Budawan, Mednipur, Bankura, Mednipur, 24 Parganas(N) and Dakhin Dinajpur.

“These vans will go around villages in seven districts of West Bengal. We aim at covering 115 villages in the next two months, At national level we plan to cover 5000 villages in the first phase of the campaign,“ he added..

Presently the bank has 4011 branches in India, with 500 branches in the eastern zone.

(Reporting by Adit Majumder)