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The Government of India nationalised Canara Bank, along with 13 other major commercial banks in India, on 19 July 1969. Karkala Pulkeri Janardhan Prabhu (KPJ Prabhu) served as chairman of the bank post nationalisation. In 1976, Canara Bank inaugurated its 1000th branch. In 1985, Canara Bank acquired Lakshmi Commercial Bank in a rescue.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (transl. Prime Minister's Public Finance Scheme) is a financial inclusion program of the Government of India open to Indian citizens (minors of age 10 and older can also open an account with a guardian to manage it), that aims to expand affordable access to financial services such as bank accounts, remittances, credit, insurance and pensions.
The Karnataka Vikasa Grameena Bank (KVGB) is an Indian Regional Rural Bank sponsored by Canara Bank. It is under the ownership of the Ministry of Finance , Government of India . The bank provides retail banking services to rural users and has 629 branches in North and Western Karnataka .
In the fiscal year 2005-06, Canara Bank became India's second-largest public sector bank in terms of advances and deposits. The bank changed its name to Canara Bank Limited in 1910 when it incorporated. [5] In 2002-03, the bank went in for its Initial Public Offer and raised Rs.110 crores. [2] The India government holds a 73% stake in Canara Bank.
The bank was permitted to carry all kinds of banking business and provided banking services to individuals and small businesses. It was a Scheduled Bank jointly owned by Government of India, Canara Bank and Government of Karnataka (share capital contributed in the ratio of 50:35:15 respectively). The bank was permitted to carry all kinds of ...
Banks Board Bureau (BBB) (now replaced by Financial Services Institution Bureau since 2022) was an autonomous body of the Government of India [1] tasked to search and select appropriate personages for the Board of Public Sector Banks, Public Sector Financial Institutions, and Public Sector Insurance Companies and recommend measures to improve Corporate Governance in these Institutions.
At the time of its establishment, the bank was known as Canara Industrial and Banking Syndicate Limited. The bank, along with 13 major commercial banks of India, was nationalised on 19 July 1969, by the government of India. It was headquartered in the university town of Manipal, India. On 1 April 2020, the bank was merged into Canara Bank.
It is sponsored by Canara Bank. Like other RRBs, Government of India holds the majority 50 percent shares, while the state government and Canara Bank holds 35 percent and 15 percent, respectively. As of 2013, KGB had 504 branches and a total net worth of ₹471.58 crore and deposits of ₹7,266 crore and advances of ₹7,761 crore, with a total ...