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The Daily Excelsior publishes since of the excerpts of the interview of Chairman & Managing Director J&K Bank R K Chhibber
DE: At the outset, for our younger audience, we would like you to begin with the genesis of J&K Bank. How did it come into being and who founded the bank?
JKB CMD: It was in the late 1920’s, when Maharaja Hari Singh assessed that lack of access to credit was the main reason for economic backwardness of Jammu and Kashmir, and conceived the idea to establish a kind of State Bank for J&K. Subsequently, Sir Sorabji N. Pochkhanawala, the then Managing Director of the Central Bank of India, was approached to suggest the frame-work for such an entity.
SRINAGAR: A number of aspirants for banking associate job in Jammu and Kashmir bank staged a protest here at Srinagar, seeking re-examination of those candidates who missed their examination due to snowfall in the morning shift on Sunday. “We could not reach the venue of examination on time due to snowfall as roads were clogged with snow early in the morning.
A number of aspirants for banking associate job in Jammu and Kashmir bank staged a protest here at Srinagar, seeking re-examination of those candidates who missed their examination due to snowfall in the morning shift on Sunday.
“We were not allowed to the centres on account of being late,” said Yasir Altaf Zargar, one among the protesters who assembled at Press enclave here. “There should be re-examination for all those aspirants who missed the examination scheduled in the morning shift,” he said as others seconded him.