The Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, has launched a special drive at every Gram Panchayat and Urban Local Body level from 21.10.2026 to 31.12.2026 to include all the underprivileged in financial inclusion schemes. Under this campaign, Punjab National Bank Circle Office Mohali, organized a mega public awareness camp on 30.10.2026 ,Friday in Gram Panchayat Kalewal (Kurali), District Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Mohali.
The event was actively attended by Mr. Pankaj Setia, General Manager, Reserve Bank of India; Sh Gurmeet Singh SDM Kharar, Biswojit Biswal, Circle Head, Punjab National Bank Mohali; Sh Arun Kumar DGM NABARD, Sh Kundan Kumar AGM SBI Regional Office, Sh Dinesh Kumar Regional Head Punjab Gramin Bank , Smt Surinder Kaur Sarpanch Village Kalewal and Sh M.K. Bhardwaj, Lead District Manager Mohali; District Coordinators from various banks; and representatives CFL Centre, FLC and Business Correspondents of banks.
Sh Biswojit Biswal, DGM PNB welcomed all the guests and participants in the event. He also assured the gathering that PNB is committed to provide best customer service to the people in the area and having a good presence in this area and being a lead bank of district PNB owns extra responsibility for the welfare of its people in this area. He stated that the campaign will be implemented smoothly and the deprived will be provided the benefits of every scheme. Necessary guidelines have been issued to all branches for this campaign.
Gram Panchayat Kalewal also offered saropas to all the the dignitaries present in the function.
Mr. Pankaj Setia, General Manager, Reserve Bank of India, urged all banks to participate in this campaign, extend benefits of every scheme to the underprivileged, and update KYC and enrolment. Furthermore, keeping in mind the importance of cyber security, an appeal was made to not share bank account information, OTP, or password with anyone under any circumstances.
Ramkishore Meena, Deputy General Manager, SLBC Punjab, informed that the campaign includes registration of eligible citizens under the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, and Atal Pension Yojana, Aadhaar seeding, opening new accounts for eligible citizens under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, reactivating/operating inoperative Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts, completing re-KYC of existing PMJDY and other savings accounts, generating C-KYC IDs for those accounts where pending, updating nominations in savings accounts and other banking facilities, such as lockers, providing information on the process of recovering inactive/unclaimed deposits, and providing awareness regarding prevention, precautions, and complaint/reporting of digital frauds. On-the-spot registration of eligible farmers who were deprived of the Kisan Credit Card Scheme was being carried out.
Sh Gurmeet Singh SDM Kharar, also praised the initiative taken by PNB for the welfare of local people and he also appreciated the awareness programme about Cyber Crime as this is the need of hour today.
Various products in the stalls were also displayed by self Help Groups, RSETI institute Mohali and CFL Centre Majri. Nukkar Natak on awareness about cyber crime was also played by the students which was liked by all people.
MK Bhardwaj, Lead District Manager, Mohali, requested the general public to participate in the camps of this special campaign and avail the benefits of the special saturation drive being run by the Government of India. The programme was also attended by Sh. Gulshan Kumar, Sh Gurmeet Chhabra Chief Manager PNB, Sh Sudhir Sidhu AGM RBI Chandigarh, Ms Anchal Sharma DDM Nabard and other higher official of other banks operating in the area.