Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Punjab National Bank (PNB), Hyderabad organized an Agriculture Outreach Programme on Saturday (March 1) at National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME), Yusufguda in Hyderabad with the objective to promote agricultural development, employment generation, support to rural economy, Self Help Groups (SHGs) and financial inclusion.

The AGRI Outreach Programme was inaugurated by Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra, Executive Director of the Bank, Monojit Majumdar, General Manager, Head Office, Shrikant Sharm, Director, NIMS and Deepak Kumar Srivastava, Zonal Manager, Hyderabad Zone along with Sanjay Mane, Deputy Zonal Manager, Arvind Kalra, Circle Head, Hyderabad and Sujeet Kumar Jha, Circle Head, Secunderabad.

More than 95 beneficiaries of Self Help Groups (SHGs) were given principal sanction letters worth Rs 42.15 crores and Agri leads of Rs 167 crores have been received in this outreach programme. Special guest of the programme, Divya Devarajan, CEO, Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, Telangana state, congratulated PNB for this programme dedicated to agricultural entrepreneurship. She also encouraged the women of SHGs present on the occasion.  

In his presidential address, Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra, Executive Director of the bank, said that the main objective of this outreach programme is to empower farmers and entrepreneurs associated with the agriculture system through financial assistance.

The slogan of this outreach programme is – ‘Enhancing Agriculture: Paving the way for progress and development.’ General Manager of the head office, Monojit Majumdar said that the main objective of this outreach programme is reaching out to the customers which is core of the banking service and to give information about our various schemes being made available for farmers and agriculture entrepreneurs. In this outreach programme more than 30 stalls of various Agri products have been exhibited for exhibitors and a session ‘To Know PNB Agriculture Scheme’ was also organized.