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i. RURAL CLINIC SERVICE (RCS)
Rural clinic service is a novel and unique rural
health service scheme in vogue in our Bank since 1983. The twin objectives of
the scheme are to provide medical facilities to backward villages not having
access to basic medical care and to provide self-employment opportunities
amongst unemployed doctors to set-up their clinics in the remote backward
villages.
The scheme provides an opportunity to qualified
doctors in Allopathy/ Homeopathy/ Ayurveda or any such other discipline of
medicine recognized by the State or Central Government/Universities recognised
by All India Medical Council/Board of respective disciplines.
The identified, qualified doctors are assisted
under the scheme through a rural branch as regular clinic or Part time Clinic
basis for a period of one year. The identified willing doctors as per the
scheme norms are eligible to get an incentive and cost of medicines for
dispensing it free of cost to poor patients.
So far, the Bank has assisted 515 doctors to set
up rural clinics in remote rural areas.
ii. RURAL SERVICE VOLUNTEER SCHEME (RSV)
The Bank pioneered an innovative scheme called
Rural Service Volunteers in the year 1982. Under the scheme, the Bank provides
an opportunity to willing and interested workmen staff to work for rural
development on full time basis, for a minimum period of 2 years. The scheme
aims at bringing total transformation in socio-economic fronts of 2-3 selected
backward villages, through co-ordinated approach. So far, 146 workmen staffs
have worked as RSVs.
iii. JALAYOGA SCHEME
The scheme introduced in the year 1996 to
commemorate Bank's 90th year of establishment to provide safe drinking water to
SC/ST/Backward communities of rural areas coming under lead districts of the
Bank. Acute shortage of drinking water faced by the impacted community has
driven the Bank to respond to their needs. Governments alone cannot meet the
basic needs of the people and this has prompted the Bank to take up community
development projects like JALAYOGA.
The Bank through its operating mechanism
identifies the areas for implementation of the scheme. The necessary land is
allotted/granted by the Village Panchayat/ Village Development Committee. The
Bank funds the project and implements through its branches.
A sum of Rs. 3.00 lakhs per project is released
and any extra cost towards the project is to be borne by the local bodies.
After completion, the system is handed over to the local bodies for future
maintenance and servicing.
iv. HARIKALYANA YOJANA
To mitigate the socio-economic problems of
SC/STs, the above scheme was launched during 1988. The scheme aims at
development of SC/ST colonies through a locally appointed animator. The scheme
provides a grant assistance of Rs. 5,000/- to the selected youth to acquire
productive assets for gainful employment and income generation. An additional
grant of Rs. 10,000/- is provided for promotion of developmental activities
like literacy classes, health care, cleanliness campaign, tree planting,
sanitation, drainage and other extension programmes. The role of animator is
catalytic in nature to bring about socio-economic transformation in the
community.
The scheme has been implemented in about 390
SC/ST colonies.
v. RURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (RRDC)
RRDCs are physical nuclei structures promoted by
the Bank during 1988 for the benefit of cluster of villages. The objectives of
the scheme are to harness and facilitate the available local resources for the
development of villages and its management by the villagers. Under the scheme,
the Bank provides a grant assistant of Rs. 50,000/- for construction of RRDC
building with contributions from villagers in the form of land and labour.
Presently, 19 RRDCs have been established in
various parts of the country.
vi. MOBILE SALES VAN
A PIONEERING EFFORT FOR HELPING WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS IN MARKETING
Canara Bank, as part of its Corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiatives has sponsored a Retail Mobile Marketing Van
for Display cum Sale of House hold products, articles made by Self - Help
Groups, Small women entrepreneurs, Artisans, Self Employed women etc.
This van is custom built high tech, solar
powered, equipped with computerized billing, swiping machine for credit/debit
card acceptance. This marketing van will be stationed in important locations of
Bangalore to enable the citizens of the city to see and purchase the products
manufactured by artisans and other underprivileged women entrepreneurs. This
Mobile Van thus provides a platform for publicity of products in the entire
city instead of being restricted to one area/locality.
This is a hand holding effort by Canara Bank in
support of small women entrepreneurs, SHGs, Artisans etc to get them access to
market channels for their quality products. It is a unique effort in helping
the disadvantaged groups in marketing their products.
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