District Development Commissioner, Mohammad Aijaz, chaired District Level Review Committee (DLRC) meeting of officers of banks and concerned departments to discuss the achievements of banking sector in deposits and advances here today.The meeting was attended by Assistant General Manager, RBI, R.B Sharma, Director RSETI Rajiv Kumar Sharma, Lead District Manager, Arun Khajuria, DDM- NABARD, Arshi Sharma, Chief Planning Officer, Parshotam Kumar, GM DIC, DSWO, ADs, DSHO and others bankers and officers of line department.It was informed in the meeting that up to March 2016, deposits worth Rs.978.14 crore have been recorded while Rs.279.92 crore have been released under advance sector.
Threadbare deliberation was held on various schemes under which loans are provided to the beneficiaries for operating income generating units. It was elucidated that many cases have been kept pending by the various bank branches.The Chairman expressed concern over slow progress of banks in achieving targets of CD ratio and poor performance in credits in Agriculture sector. He directed the banks to take effective measures for ensuring loans in Agriculture sector so that majority of the population would be facilitated under various schemes. He asked DDM NABARD to create more self help groups of women and youth for providing job opportunities to them. He also instructed bankers to provide educational loans well in time to students seeking admission in various professional and other courses in or outside the state.DDC directed the bankers to provide check lists to all concerned departments for proper sponsoring of loan case. He also asked them to prepare a schedule for conducting Financial Literacy Camps especially in rural areas to make people aware about different farmer friendly and other financial assistance schemes.Earlier, DDC also reviewed the functioning of Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSET), Ramban. He directed the officer of RSETI to introduce job oriented courses in their training schedule.