Bankers have been helping them in migrant workers returning to their homes during lockdown, from opening a bank account to registration in employment programs. Bank accountants are responsible for taking advantage of the financial facilities provided by the central and state government under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission of the Ministry of Rural Development.
Along with this, these bank associates are responsible for providing pension to the elderly sitting in the rural areas, payment of their allowances to the disabled, payment of MGNREGA workers and help a villager to withdraw money from the account.
The special thing is that many women have also got employment due to this campaign. At present there are 63 lakh self-help groups in the country with 690 lakh women members whose financial affairs are being handled by the bank authorities.
Due to these bank statements, there was no problem in taking financial transactions from farmers to the villagers to withdraw money from their accounts in a rural area during the lockdown. He did not even have to bother to go to the bank. At present, there are large scale bank branches in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh.
To be a tenth pass, to
become a banker, it is necessary to have 10th pass and knowledge of arithmetic. Women who are between 18 and 45 years of age are selected through interviews. He is given the prescribed honorarium by the bank. One bank friend is appointed on 30 groups and two bank associates on accounts of 80 to 160 groups. After this, the number of sakhis is increased according to the number of villages according to the number of groups.
