Sampla said that he, along with the Finance Minister, took various initiatives taken by public sector banks for their welfare in terms of lending to persons belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and their welfare in terms of reservation, backlog vacancies, functioning of welfare and grievance redressal mechanism and other issues. measures were reviewed. ,
Addressing the media here, the NCSC Chairman said that banks will conduct a campaign from October 2 to December 31 this year to fill the backlog vacancies. Also, banks have been directed to clear and complete the pending grievances of SC people during this campaign by October 31.
“The branches of the banks shall fulfill the obligations assigned to them, especially towards the members of the Scheduled Caste community. stand up india program of the Central Government. Similarly in respect of other government schemes like NRLMNULM, Posture, Swabhiman And the housing scheme, banks should target to achieve the prescribed percentage for SC beneficiaries.”
Sampla also said that banks will send a report on reservation policy regarding recruitment and coverage of SC beneficiaries in all schemes, and submit the progress of all schemes to NCSC twice every year.
“In addition, banks have been asked to make a physical presentation before the NCSC every year during the period from April 14 to April 30 (birthday of Dr BR Ambedkar) and send a report in the second fortnight of October every year,” he said. ”
Banks were also directed to pay minimum wages to all outsourced employees and submit reports in this regard to the Department of Financial Services and NCSC, and banks would review the data of all loans that were sanctioned but not disbursed. Were, and will analyze the difference.
“It has been observed that there are a lot of cases in SC-VCFs (Scheduled Caste Venture Capital Funds) where accounts have become NPAs. Banks were directed to check the backward-forward linkage at the time of sanction of loans. Services of consultants/consultants to help SC entrepreneurs for project appraisal before sanctioning loans and to ensure proper implementation of projects,” Sampla said.
Bankers must ensure that every eligible Scheduled Caste person who is applying under this scheme credit growth guarantee scheme Or get the benefit of other such schemes, he said.