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ANNEX 3: PROJECTS SANCTIONED UNDER FIF AND FITF
Financial Inclusion Fund
Capacity building and financial literacy
Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF) has
been involved to provide training to candidates to get
engaged as BC/BF. The training cost of candidates
who successfully complete the certification course
on BC/BF will be met from FIF. The project plans
to cover 20,000 candidates over a period of 2 years
(2009-11).
Financial literacy training in Vidarbha. Ten training
of trainers (ToT) will be conducted covering 300
resource persons drawn from SHG leaders, FCs and
retired bank personnel.
Pilot project to establish Farmers’ Service Centres/
Village Knowledge Centres (VKCs), mobile credit
counselling centres for promotion of financial literacy
and farmer education through mass media in South
Malabar district of Kerala. Plans for setting up 8 such
centres in 8 districts.
Support to Kozhikode DCCB for setting up of Credit
Counselling and Livelihood Promotion Centre.
Support to Thrissur DCCB for setting up of
Information Dissemination-cum-Human Resource
Development Centre.
Capacity building programme for RRB and post
office for using Post office as BC of RRB through
five training programmes in Uttarakhand.
Financial Resource Centre at RRB to cater to the
capacity building and research needs for up-scaling
financial inclusion in four districtsof West Bengal -
Murshidabad, Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas.
Four training programmes for around 100 members
of 11 FCs identified by the bank to act as BFs in
Morigaon district, Assam.
Financial literacy by RRB in Assam in Nalbari
district.
Capacity Building Programme for LDMs of banks
conducted by BIRD, Lucknow.
Financial Inclusion Technology Fund
Card based ICT solutions implemented by RRBs
for strengthening of BC model
• Engaging 30 BCs in Papum Pare, West Siang and
Upper Subansiri districts of Arunachal Pradesh
for opening 30,000 card-based accounts in two
years.
• Engaging 104 BCs in Sonitpur & Sibsagar
districts in Assam to open minimum 104,000
card-based accounts.
• Gulbarga and Bidar districts in Karnataka to
cover 450,000 accounts.
• Engaging 100 BCs in the two hilly tribal
districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar
Hills in Assam to open minimum 100,000 cardbased
accounts through 50 branches.
• Bahraich and Shrawasti districts in Uttar
Pradesh to cover 150,000 new accounts.
• Opening 40,000 new accounts in four blocks
of Aizawal and Kolasib districts in Mizoram.
• Bellary and Chitradurga districts in Karnataka
covering 706,000 beneficiaries.
• Opening 120,000 accounts in West Tripura and
Dhalai districts of Tripura.
• Covering 64,420 beneficiaries in Hamirpur
district of Uttar Pradesh.
• Covering 190,000 new accounts in Gopalganj
district of Bihar.
• Covering 1,25,000 rural households across
569 villages of Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar
Pradesh.
• Covering 5,000 new customers through BC
in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh and
enabling contactless smart card and biometric
finger print scanning technology.
• Covering 5,000 customers in Nainital and
Almora districts of Uttaranchal and introduction
of Gramin Bank smart card.
Other initiatives for strengthening BC model
• Engaging BCs in 10 bank branches (1 CSP per
branch) and enabling technology in 74 RRB
branches in Pali district of Rajasthan to cover
120,512 households.
• Providing banking services through one lakh
new accounts using BC model and bio-metric
enabled mobile services by a commercial bank
for transaction at Village CSPs in 194 villages in
five blocks of Kutch, Banaskantha and UT of
Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
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