Third Conclave of RSETI Directors of Canara Bank - A Brief Report

A two-day Conclave of Directors of RSETIs sponsored by Canara Bank was organized at Hotel Citadel, Bangalore on 10th & 11th October, 2013. The conclave was inaugurated by Dr Vijay Bhaskar, IAS, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development and Panchayath Raj, Govt. of Karnataka. Sri S S Bhat, General Manager, PC & FI Wing, Sri Sunil S Kurtkoti, Dy General Manager, Smt K Susheela, Asst. General Manager & Managing Trustee, CBCRDT, Sri Rajesh Ranjan Singh, Divisional Manager & Secretary, CBCRDT, Sri Ananthayya Achar, Senior Manager, Sri K N Janardhana, Chief Project Co-ordinator, Monitoring Cell for RSETIs and other officials from the Bank participated in the inaugural function.

In his inaugural address Dr Vijay Bhaskar complimented the initiatives of Canara Bank on various rural development activities and emphasized that skill development programme should have a greater stress on self employment programme. He further stressed the importance of providing timely credit to the trainees to ensure sustainable growth of the entrepreneur.

Twenty five RSETI Directors from Canara Bank participated in the Conclave.