A series of workshops were conducted to benefit the rural population of Rajasthan on 6th, 7th and 8thFebruary, 2014 under NICSI’s Corporate Social Responsibility. The aim of these workshops were to spread awareness about benefits of financial stability & financial inclusion and how socio-economic development in rural areas can be achieved through computerization of grass-root financial organizations like Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS). The PACS e-learning portal developed by NICSI was demonstrated in these workshops. The soon to be launched portal is being built as a one-stop-shop for all the information of PACS. Special emphasis has been given to provide online training to rural masses in their native language regarding PACS related activities through this portal. The event received enthusiastic participation from District Co-Operative Banks & PACS officials. Participants have shown their keen interest in manner in which computerization may help to achieve financial inclusion and monitoring of funds under various schemes at apex level. Key officials providing guidance and vision to this event includes Smt. Indu Gupta, DDG & SIO-Rajasthan, Shri Rajesh Bahadur, MD-NICSI, Shri IPS Sethi, STD, NIC, Shri Sanjeev Gahlaut, GM, NICSI and Shri A.K. Singh, Consultant Core Banking. Shri R.K. Puri, MD and Shri C.M. Bhardwaj, DGM, Rajasthan State Co-operative Bank extended their full support in making this event successful. The participants appraised the efforts of RSCB & CCBS teams for conducting these workshops.
Workshop in Progress