Published : Business Standard
/16-Nov-2016
With over 70 per cent of Odisha's gram panchayats bereft of a bank branch, chief minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has pressed on the need for mobile banking services in unrepresented regions to cope up with the demonetisation crisis.In a letter to Union finance minister Shri Arun Jaitley,Shri Patnaik said, "Apart from relaxations in withdrawals for government disbursements like old age pensions which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has facilitated, I would also request you to request RBI and other banks to urgently provide mobile banking services or to set up temporary counters in unbanked gram panchayats. The state government will provide requisite support and infrastructure for this purpose."