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PM Narendra Modi RuPay Cards for Self-help Group member, enrolled for PMJDY features
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches distribution of RuPay Cards for Self-help Group (SHG) member, enrolled for Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 October 2017, has symbolically launched the distribution of RuPay Cards for Self-help Group (SHG) member, enrolled for Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY).
RuPay Cards enrolled through the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project, a non-governmental organization, during the programme.
Modi offered prayers at the famous Lord Manjunatha Swami temple at Dharmasthala during his visit to Karnataka where he attended a function organized by the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project in the temple town in Dakshina Kannada district.
PM Modi symbolically transferred RuPay cards to women who would then conduct banking transactions in the MICRO ATMs placed on the dais during the programme.
SKDRDP Executive Director L H Manjunath said in a release that workers of the project had helped 12 lakh SHG members to open PMJDY accounts at their own premises.
SKDRDP is registered under the Trust Act and been working since 1982. It is promoted and nurtured by D Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari who is the hereditary administrator of Dharmasthal Manjunatha Temple.
According to Manjunath, with the initiatives of the SKDRDP, about 12 lakh poor people, 85% of the woman, were receiving banking service seamlessly,
