Mangalore : NABARD Chairman Prakash Bakshi has said that banking sector needed people who can deliver better services to the farming sector.
He was speaking after inaugurating the full-fledged campus of Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Mangalore Branch at Bondel on May 17, Friday.
Bakshi further said the condition of famers has to improve if the nation has to progress. Continuing, he said training in rural banking for the first batch of agricultural engineering graduate trainees of Corporation Bank will begin at the new campus from May 20.
GR Chinthala, Director of Lucknow Branch of BIRD said the Lucknow camopus of the BIRD will have training for 20 MBA students of University of Hawaii in December.
R Venkataswamy, Joint Director of Mangalore Branch of BIRD, informed that the institute untilo now has trained 43000 officers from various client banks.
Ananthakrishna, Karnataka Bank’s ex-officio Chairman, NK Tingalaya, former chairman ofSyndicate Bank, BK Srivastava, Executive Director of Corporation Bank and others were present on the occasion.