SBI, Jaipur Circle organises branch level consultative meetings
State Bank of India, Jaipur Circle organised branch level consultative meetings on 29 centres across the 33 districts of the state on 17th and 18th August,2019. Top executives of the bank namely Shri B Ramesh Babu, DMD and Chief Operating Officer and Shri Raveendra Pandey, Chief General Manager of SBI Jaipur Circle also participated in this programme. DMD and COO of SBI shri Babu said this was a first of its kind programme wherein branches were to themselves review their performance and deliberate on the issues before the banking sector and ideate on future strategy. These meetings focused on the ways and means to increase credit to various sectors of the economy, enabling big data analytics, enhance use of technology, making banking citizen centric as well as more responsive to the needs and aspirations of senior citizens, farmers, small industrialists, entrepreneurs, youth, students and women.
Thematic papers on various challenges facing the banking sector by domain experts namely nandan Nilekani, Uday Kotak, UK Sinha, K Subramanian, Aditya puri, Prof Ramesh Chand and DR HK Bhanwala, David Rasquenha, Dr Charan Singh and Soumya Kanti Ghosh were presented during the meets with the view to suggest in PSBs and the future road map for them.
On this occasion Shri Raveendra Pandey, Chief General Manager of SBI Jaipur Circle said that the meet reviewed the bank’s performance and its alignment with national priorities in the areas such as credit support for economic growth, infrastructure/industry, SME sector and MUDRA loans, Education loan, clean India, financial inclusion and women empowerment, less cash/digital economy etc.
As a result of the consultations a number of implementable and innovative suggestions came up to make SBI still better and to strategize its road map for the future. These suggestions were collated and sent to the lead bank of the district for consideration of the SLBC. After the SLBI level final consultation will be held at the national level to compare both intra and interbank performances and the way ahead for implementation of these suggestions in PSBs.
The consultative process has resulted in a renewed sense of involvement and purpose down to the branch level and the banks will be able to improve upon the future strategy, work performance and align themselves to national priorities and partner the Indian growth story.