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Vijaya Bank to open 15 gen next branches

September 4, 2011

Mangalore, September 4: Vijaya Bank Chairman and Managing Director H S Upendra Kamath said that the bank is planning to open about 12 to 15 Gen Next bank branches in this financial year.


Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, Gen Next braches are exclusely for those youth who do not have time to attend the banking system. In the Centre, all banking transactions are carried out through teller machines. This is an attempt to attract tech savy youth.

Financial inclusion

The CMD said: “We have been allotted 408 villages and have completed the process in 260 villages under financial inclusion. We are planning to complete the process of financial inclusion in all the targetted villages above 2000 population before January 2012. In fact, we have started credit linking of those needy persons who are included under financial inclusion.” Loans worth Rs 21 lakh was disbursed under credit linking to the villagers of Keyur in Kumbra (Puttur) in Dakshina Kannada on Saturday, he added.

The Bank is also planning to open five to eight Micro Financing branches to meet the credit requirements of urban population under financial inclusion. The micro financing branches are helpful in undertaking poverty alleviation programmes, he added.

Branches

The CMD said that bank is planning to open 100 new branches and 250 ATMs across the country during the current year. Most of the branches and ATMs will be opened on 80th Founders' Day of the bank, i.e, on October 23.

Target

He said the bank aims to reach a business level of Rs 1,53,000 crore, with a y-o-y growth of about 25 per cent. To sustain the tempo of credit growth with focus on retail, he said revamped RACPC (Retail Asset Credit Processing Cell) and newly opened SME cells will give added thrust to retail asset growth. Five more Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises centralised processing centres will be started in 2011-12.

The Bank will continue thrust on maintaining the yield on advances by encouraging retail lending, credit to SSI/SME segment, agriculture and infrastructure sectors. The bank plans to contain the net Non Performing Assets (NPA) to be within 1 per cent (present 1.65%). The bank has fully adopted a system-driven NPA identification process, he informed.

Special campaign will be started for adding retail clients both on assets and liabilities side. The Bank has started cash incentive scheme to enthuse all employees of the bank to participate in the loan recovery process.

“We organise one recovery camp in a week in any of the branches,” Kamath added. 'Saving Utsav' will be launched in all the branches from October 1.

He said emphasis will be given on mobilising low cost deposits / core term deposits to improve share of low cost deposit and to reduce the dependence on bulk deposits.

Stating that Vijaya Rural Development Foundation will go on outreach programme by opening new VDC, he said new schemes are implemented as a part of their Corporate Social Responsibility.

Kamath said the bank would increase CASA (current account savings account) share to 27 per cent by March, 2012. In 2010-11, CASA registered a growth of 21.32 per cent, the share being 25.25 per cent of total deposits.

The Vijaya Bank has reached a total business of Rs 127000 crore.

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July 29,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 29: A day after Congress staged a nationwide 'Save Democracy' protest, Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy slammed Congress for "dividing" the political parties and "buying MLAs" and questioned their "democratic behaviour" to lure Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs who supported them.

Kumaraswamy, in a media statement, said, "Is it a democratic behaviour to lure MLAs of other parties through political shenanigans and later merging with them?"

"Congress is an expert in dividing political parties and purchase of MLAs," said Kumaraswamy adding, "If you are dividing the like-minded party MLAs through deceit, who would support you?"

He alleged that the term "horse trade" in politics came to be used because of Congress.

Congress had tied to divide the Janata Dal (Secular) in 2004. To this, he added, "To avoid the party being hijacked by the Congress, I had to oust the Congress-JD(S) coalition government through a political coup."

Kumaraswamy further accused, "Haven't the Congress who is making a big noise about the purchase of MLAs divided the JD(S) in the past? Is it not a fact that for the sake of one Rajya Sabha seat, the Congress government in Karnataka purchased eight JD(S) MLAs?"

Both -- Congress and BJP -- are "criminals" in purchase matter, he added.

Rajasthan Congress is in turmoil after simmering differences between Sachin Pilot and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot came out in the open. Pilot was removed as the Deputy Chief Minister and the state unit chief of Congress.

The Congress has accused the BJP of indulging in horse-trading to bring down the Gehlot government. The BJP has rejected the allegations.

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January 29,2020

Jan 29: Karnataka Tourism Minister, CT Ravi came up in support of BJP leader Anurag Thakur, and made a controversial statement in the process.

Ravi recently took to Twitter to express his views on Thakur facing probe for allegedly making provocative statements. In his tweet, Ravi said that "anti-nationals should get bullet not biryani".

"Those attacking Union MoS @ianuragthakur for his statement against traitors are the ones who - opposed death to terrorirts Ajmal Kasab and Yakub Memon, supported tukde tukde gang, spread lies against CAA. Anti-nationals should get bullet not biryani," Ravi tweeted.

Earlier, Thakur had allegedly made slogans like "Desh ke gaddaro ko, goli maaro saalo ko (shoot the traitors)" multiple times during a public meeting in Delhi. He had also faced a show-cause notice from the Electon Commission, asking a response from him on January 30.

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January 25,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 25: To address the grievances of the Industrialists, over the issue of acquisition of land, the state government have plans to dilute the Land Reforms Act, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, said here on Saturday.

Speaking to the media here, on his visit to the World Economic Forum, Davos, recently he said that 'the visit was fruitful and ends with satisfactory note by procuring promises from several Industrial houses to investment in Karnataka'.

Stating that during his five-day stay at Davos, he had met several Industries heads on the sidelines of the summit, and had an interactive meeting with them, Chief Minister said that 'the event had helped us to present our state Karnataka, to convince them about the prevailing industry-friendly environment'.

He said that he had met several heads of global companies, including Arcelor Mittal, Kirloskar, MAHINDRA, Bharat Forge, 2000 Watt, general electrical, Dassault, Dalmia, Lulu Group, Volvo, Nova Nosdik and Domeco.

'The interaction with the corporate heads was encouraging and more investment is expected to flow into Karnataka, in the fields of Mining, Power, Agriculture, Pharma, Education, and Industries.'

Informing that the main grouse expressed by the Industrialists about the bottlenecks being faced in the Land Reforms Act to procure land, he said that 'To make ease of conversion of Agricultural land we have plans to bring amendment and it would be both win-win situation to both Farmers as well as Industries.'

'We have promised them to remove all hurdles, which comes in the way of acquiring land to set up industries, and we have promised to rectify all the administrative problems within a month or two and legal problems in the next couple of months by amending existing laws.'

'We have also plans to present a new Industrial policy in the coming budget and roll out a comprehensive and investor-friendly law', he further said.

Replying to questions, Chief Minister said that 'all those investment proposals which got clearance at the High-Level Clearance Committee would automatically considered as ‘deemed permission’ and start the process of acquisition of land'.

'TheWorldEconomic Forum Summit had also served us as a platform to invite Industrialists to take part in the Karnataka Global Investors Meet scheduled to be held in November this year', he added.

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