Jatkauli- A Village with special Attention

On 27^th of January, Central Bank of India In collaboration with Red Cross society have selected my village “Jatkauli” as one of 100 villages across the country for the social development in healthcare and education along with financial inclusion. It has been done to mark Bank’s 100 year of operation this year. Under the program, the selected villages will be having a special attention by the bank for its social development that includes health care services, Education loans, Agricultural activity loans and other initiatives to enhance the standard of living of the village.

Jatkauli, A village with around 850 household and roughly a population of 5000 people is situated near Vaishali, a famous pilgrim place of Buddha. On the occasion, in the supervision of its Muzaffarpur zonal office, 2 people have been allotted the Auto loan, 29 people have been selected for self-group for financial help and also 400 school children got the gift of their bank account. Along with that with the help of Red cross society, 400 people got free health check-up.

My association with Central bank has been for last 4 years as I had applied for my education loan for my MBA Program. It was surprising to see that my loan application was the first case of an education loan of amount higher than 4 lakhs in its 30 years of history. It shows the kind of education and social backwardness of the nearby area. Having said that, in last 5 years or so I have notices many families has sent their children for the higher education to make their life better and convenient. I feel proud to be one of them.

With the initiative by Central Bank and Red Cross will surely help the people of my village to improve their lives and will add immense value as far as education and healthcare is concerned. A village which is still waiting for its first high school, first bank, first hospital…. The list is endless, would be looking forward to this initiative. I hope in future many more such organizations should come forward to help the people to uplift their lifestyle. A well thought step by the Bank and I am truly truly thankful to them for this noble cause.