Banks will not be privatised – Minister

Public sector banks would not be privatised, said Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad while addressing media persons here today. In order to provide better services, he said that several meetings had been held with banks in the state.

“As many as four rural areas do not have banking services,” Said karad.

Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad has requested the bank authority to ensure that their officials spend four hours a day in these villages.

He added that the state had 45,000 that the per capita income of Kisan credit cards and a the state was very high, training camp for societies in which villages would be organised increase by promoting the to increase this number.
He said that the govern-eries sectors. He added that ment was focusing on the government had started increasing financial literacy a jan samarth app for people in villages in collaboration ple to take loans online. With the national bank fo agriculture and rural 1dent suresh kashyap had development (nabard). He was requested to provide more information.

The Union minister said that the per capita income of the state was very high, which would further increase by promoting the animal husbandry and fisheries sectors.

He added that the government had started a Jan Samarth app for peo- ple to take loans online.

The BJP state president Suresh Kashyap requested him to open more banks in rural areas, and the government would conduct a survey on this issue.