SBI chairman inaugurates 27 'all woman branches’

, Dec 8: Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairperson of the country's largest bank

, on Saturday simultaneously inaugurated 27 'all woman branches' of the lender falling in the Chandigarh circle.

On her maiden visit to Chandigarh local head office of the bank, which is the controlling office of branches in the four northern states - Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab - apart from union territory Chandigarh, she inaugurated the Personal Banking Branch, Sector -17 as 'All Woman Branch'.

This is one of the 27 'all woman branch' of the SBI in Chandigarh Circle inaugurated simultaneously by Bhattacharya, an SBI release issued here said.

It said the bank has initiated steps to ensure that at least one 'All Woman Branch' is there for each district in the Circle.

Bhattacharya addressed the staff here and gave her roadmap for activities to be pursued to take the bank to greater heights and set new benchmarks to be achieved in near future.

PTI