Manipal: Manipal Technologies Limited (MTL) is engaged by the Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM) to train and onboard 8,000 women from Self Help Groups as Banking Correspondent (BC) Sakhis in the State.
“MTL signed the agreement on Friday at an event organized by UP Government in presence of Mr Rajendra Pratap Singh, Minister for Rural Development,” the company said. The project, is part of UPSRLM’s mission to train and onboard around 58,000 rural women as BC Sakhis or banking agents, across all the 75 districts of the State, it further said.
The Project ‘Door-Step Banking Services in Rural India’ is aimed at enhancing the access to banking services in villages of all the 75 districts of UP. This will also result in increasing the household income of these rural women self-help groups and educating them in digital financial technologies.
