New Delhi (NVI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said that all banks are ensuring that their branches are open and ATMS filled up and working, to avoid any inconvenience to people amid the 21-day lockdown period.
All essential services have been exempted from the lockdown, including banking operations.
“All banks are ensuring that their branches are kept open, ATMs filled up & are working. Banking correspondents are active. Social distancing is respected & sanitizers are provided where necessary. Just in case, any assistance/clarification is required contact @DFSFightsCorona,” she said in a tweet.
All banks are ensuring that their branches are kept open, ATMs filled up & are working. Banking correspondents are active. Social distancing is respected & sanitizers are provided where necessary. Just in case, any assistance/clarification is required contact @DFSFightsCorona
— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) March 30, 2020
While referring to cases where people are going to banks for under unavoidable circumstances, the Finance Minister said that social distancing is maintained and sanitisers provided where necessary.
Sitharaman, who held a meeting with heads of banks on Saturday, also asked people to contact the Department of Financial Services in case of any assistance or clarification.
She has also asked the banks to maintain adequate liquidity in their respective branches, ATMs and at banking correspondent level amid the pandemic situation in the country.
