State Bank of India (SBI) organised State Level Bankers’ committee (SLBC) in second phase of Multi-Level Consultation and Ideation on August 23 and 24, 2019 at Raipur.

In the meeting State Level leadership of Public Sector Banks participated to deliberate for accelerating the pace of economy, to make it $ 5 Trillion economy.

Earlier, on August 17 and 18, 2019, ideation session of Branch Managers and Regional Manager were held by the Public Sector Banks. In two days ideation workshop held at Raipur Dinesh Kumar Khara, Managing

Director (Global Banking & Subsidiaries), Rajesh Kumar, Chief General Manager, SBI Bhopal Circle (Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh), CR Powar, General

Manager, SBI, Amitabh Jain (Additional Chief Secretary-Finance), senior officials of RBI/NABARD and officials of Govt of Chhattisgarh participated along with representatives of Industrial Bodies and State heads of Public Sector Banks.

Briefing the participants of the meeting Dinesh Kumar Khara stated that objective of this meeting is to finalize ways and means to increase credit to various sectors of the economy in Chhattisgarh State, enhance use of Digital to make banking citizen centric as well as more responsive to the needs of MSME, SME, Farm Sector etc.

Dinesh Khara further said that Public Sector Banks (PSBs) of Chhattisgarh have collectively identified many implementable and innovative suggestions which can help to improve PSBs performance and establish future road map. Few of the suggestions which came forward during the consultation process were with regard to boosting MSME/MUDRA/Standup India penetration and further accelerating the pace for financial inclusion, growth in farm sector and digital push among other topics.

Dinesh Kumar Khara also stated that the ideas that have emerged in the brainstorming have been consolidated and now there will be a brainstorming session between the heads of all Public Sector Banks at the National Level.