Media Release
Mangaluru, Aug 19: State Bank of India (SBI) conducted a discussion session including branches and regional offices in the state of Karnataka to generate ideas and review bank performance aligned with national priorities. The first-of-its-kind discussion which happened on August 17 and 18 deliberate effort in designing the first stage of the bottom-up consultative process of the bank.
In Mangaluru, the discussion session was attended by Vikas Goel, DGM (SME), LHO, Bengaluru SBI from the leadership team of the bank and Dinesh Aroor, regional manager, Daisy Kujur, regional manager and Srikanta Sharma K S, regional manager. Few of the suggestion which came forward during the consultation process were Adopting villages by branches and allowing each branch to utilise a part of their profit in development of improvement of Life in village like Good drinking water, waste disposal etc. Also linking the recovery of loans of each village for support ie, higer recovery higher the support, Using LED bulbs in branches for Green Economy etc.
The primary objective of this meeting was to identify and finalise ways and means to increase credit to various sectors of the economy, enhance use of technology to bring about innovation and enable big data analytics, and make banking citizen-centric as well as more responsive to the needs and aspiration of senior citizens, farmers, small industries, enterprises, youth, students & women.
SBI collectively identified many implementable and innovative suggestions which can help to improve bank’s performance and establish future roadmap.These suggestions were collated and have been sent to the zonal level for further discussions at the SLBC/State level, along with comparative performance assessment of the branches under each region. Later, bank has decided to take final consultation at the national level to compare both intra and inter-bank performances and to finalize the suggestions regarding the way ahead for implementation across PSBs.
The consultative process has resulted in a renewed sense of involvement and purposes down to the branch level and the bank is geared towards implementing the roadmap for the further, improve its performance and align itself to national priorities so that it may fulfill its mandate of partnering the Indian growth story.