{"id":12218,"date":"2023-09-17T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2023-09-17T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T10:11:08","slug":"fino-banks-innovative-bank-on-wheels-initiative-to-provide-banking-aadhaar-and-pan-card-services-in-rural-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=12218","title":{"rendered":"Fino Bank\u2019s innovative \u201cBank on Wheels\u201d initiative to provide banking, Aadhaar and PAN card services in rural Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pune (Voice News Service):<\/strong> In order to create awareness about banking as well as provide access to related services in Maharashtra, Fino Payments Bank (\u201cFino Bank\u201d, \u201cthe Bank\u201d) today announced the launch of a mobile van-based initiative called\u00a0<strong>\u201cBank on Wheels\u201d (BoW).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief guest Mr. Amol Balwadkar (Corporator) flagged off the initiative from Fino Bank\u2019s zonal office located at Radha Chowk in Pune\u2019s, Baner area. The event was attended by Mrs. Sundari Shivkumar, (DGM) NABARD as well as officials of Fino Bank Mr. Himanshu Mishra, EVP (South &amp; West), Mr. Sangram Patil, Zonal Head (MH-2) and the bank\u2019s local staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 90-day BoW initiative aims to take the benefits of technology led banking closer to the masses deprived of access to financial knowledge and services. The mobile van will pass through 29 districts of Maharashtra from&nbsp;<strong>14<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;September to 12<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;December<\/strong>, covering more than 2042 villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flagging off the initiative Mr. Amol Balwadkar (Corporator) said,&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cIt is important that benefits of technology reach villages. Around 55% of the state\u2019s population that lives in rural areas finds it difficult to access banking and other related services. I am certain an effort such as Bank on Wheels will greatly benefit local masses and lead to increased participation in formal financial services. I congratulate Fino Bank for taking the initiative and urge people to make use of this opportunity to financially empower themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Himanshu Mishra, EVP (South &amp; West), Fino Payments Bank said,<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThere is immense potential to expand banking services in the interiors of Maharashtra. We already have around 67,000 banking points across all the 36 districts of the state. In addition to bank accounts, Aadhaar number and PAN card are important to be part of formal financial services. Through our BoW initiative it is our endeavour to bring all these services closer to rural masses in a hassle-free manner. Introduced earlier in Telangana, the BoW project resulted in encouraging response as people across more than 3000 villages benefited. Our aim is to bridge the banking access gap in rural Maharashtra as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BoW mobile van carrying Fino staff, banking equipment and Aadhaar enrolment devices will tour the districts of Pune, Nashik, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Ahemadnagar, Satara, Kolhapur, Sangali, Solapur, Osmanabad, Latur, Beed , Jalna, Buldhana, Akola, Washim, Hingoli, Parbhani, Nanded, Yavatmal, Amravati, Wardha, Cahndrapur, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Bhandara, Nagpur. As per 2011 census Maharashtra\u2019s population stood at 12.63 crore, with the 29 mentioned districts accounting for majority of rural population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BoW will provide Financial Literacy, Aadhaar (new as well as updation), PAN card application along with banking services. With the mobile bank in their village, people can also open new Fino Bank account, do deposit and withdrawal using Aadhaar (AePS) and Micro ATM, transfer money, pay utility bills, recharges and purchase health, life and motor insurance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune (Voice News Service): In order to create awareness about banking as well as provide access to related services in Maharashtra, Fino Payments Bank (\u201cFino Bank\u201d, \u201cthe Bank\u201d) today announced the launch of a mobile van-based initiative called\u00a0\u201cBank on Wheels\u201d (BoW).\u00a0 Chief guest Mr. Amol Balwadkar (Corporator) flagged off the initiative from Fino Bank\u2019s zonal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}