Jammu, July 3(Scoop News)-Jammu will be soon having first women cooperative bank. This was disclosed by Kailash Verma Chairperson J&K Women Credit Cooperative Ltd and S K Sharma Principal CCM Jammu, at women empowerment awareness camp organized by the J&K Women Credit Cooperative Ltd, at Ganjansoo in Marh block.
Kailash Verma told that out of Rs 1000 crore earmarked in current year’s union budget, for launching projects for empowerment of women, the main feature of which is to make the women folk economically self dependent by undertaking income earning ventures, cooperative banks exclusively for women are envisaged to be set up in various states, to provide credit facilities to the women entrepreneurs. She added that the J&K Women Credit Cooperative Ltd has already applied to the RBI for permission to setup first women cooperative bank in Jammu. The J&K Women Credit Cooperative Ltd has been already advancing loans to its women members for setting up business ventures, to become economically self dependent. The J&K Women Credit Cooperative Ltd has so far advanced rupees three crore seventy six lakh to its members for the purposes. The Ganjansoo branch alone has advanced a loan of Rs 11 lakh to its members, belonging to border area, Mrs Verma added.
S K Sharma exhorted the women folk in the rural areas and particularly in the border belt to strengthen the J&K Women Credit Cooperative movement and be benefited from its schemes of advancing credit to its members, for undertaking self employment business ventures.
The awareness camp on women empowerment held at Ganjansoo was presided over by Kailash Verma Chairman J&K Women Credit Cooperative Ltd, while Mr S K Sharma was the Chief Guest and Th. Kuldeep Singh Senior Consultant CCM was the guest of honour. Besides Miss Seema Chaudhary, Pooja Sharma, Vandana Sharma, Namrata Jamwal and Bushan Sharma also addressed the participant in the camp, which numbered more than 200.
Among others who were present on the occasion included Bushan Kumar Sharma Sarpanch Ganjansoo, Renu Sharma Director Women Credit Cooperative, Pooja Sharma Branch Incharge Ganjansoo, Ruby Gupta, Sumali Sharma, Seema Sharma, Suman Sharma, Renu Chaudhary and Sunita Sharma.
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