Bhatkal: RBI Official conducts Financial Awareness Session at Anjuman College
Bhatkal: A session on financial awareness was held at Anjuman Arts, Science, and Commerce College, Bhatkal, on September 4, 2024. The session began at 11:15 AM and featured V. Hariprasad, Deputy General Manager of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Bangalore, as the guest speaker.
The event was organized by the college's Student Welfare Wing and hosted by Prof. Mohammed Ganim, the Student Welfare Officer. The session opened with a welcome note from Principal Prof. M.K. Shaikh, followed by the recitation of the Qirat.
During the session, Hariprasad spoke on several key topics related to financial awareness. He discussed the importance of the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI) and the National Strategy for Financial Education (NSFE), initiatives aimed at improving financial literacy. He also highlighted the RBI's efforts to reach underserved populations, such as rural youth, self-help groups, and farmers.
Hariprasad provided information on government schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY), and Atal Pension Yojana (APY), explaining their benefits and how they contribute to social security.
The session included an interactive segment where Hariprasad answered questions from students and faculty, making complex financial topics more understandable.
The event also marked 90 years of RBI's existence, with Hariprasad announcing an All-India Quiz Competition for students aged 18-25 years to further financial literacy.
Attendees included Satish, Assistant Manager at RBI Bangalore, Ajaz Alam, Manager at Canara Bank, Bhatkal, and Geeta Naik, a Financial Literacy Consultant.
The session concluded at 12:15 PM with a vote of thanks by Prof. Manjunath Prabhu, Head of the Department of Commerce.
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Rahul Gandhi has tea with 'dead' voters from Bihar, thanks EC for experience
New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he had a unique experience of having tea with some "dead" voters from Bihar and thanked the Election Commission for it.
A group of seven voters from Bihar met the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha at his residence and shared their experience of how they were declared "dead" by the EC and their names removed from the electoral rolls.
"There have been many interesting experiences in life, but I never got the chance to have tea with 'dead people'. For this unique experience, thank you Election Commission!" Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
He also shared a video of his meeting with the "dead" voters. In it, Gandhi is heard telling them to move around and see Delhi as the "dead" cannot even be charged tickets.
In the video, some of them told Gandhi that they came to know that they were "declared dead" by the EC during the special intensive revision (SIR), and were among the 65 lakh voters whose names have been removed from the electoral rolls of poll-bound Bihar.
The group also told Gandhi that they appeared before the Supreme Court on Wednesday to get their voting rights back. The apex court is hearing petitions against the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar.
In a statement, the party later said that seven voters from Bihar, all very much alive, shared tea with Rahul Gandhi today, even as the Election Commission's SIR list had them as "dead".
Ramikbal Ray, Harendra Ray, Lalmuni Devi, Vachiya Devi, Lalwati Devi, Punam Kumari, and Munna Kumar all belong to Tejashwi Yadav's constituency, Raghopur.
"They have been removed from the electoral rolls despite having completed the requisite paperwork for the SIR.
"The Election Commission has not openly published lists of the people whom it has declared dead, migrated, etc. Our teams on the ground were able to identify these people only because they managed to informally get EC's internal report in two to three polling booths," the Congress said.
These seven represent only a fraction of "unjustly" deleted voters in two to three polling booths in the constituency, it added.
"This is not a clerical error — it is political disenfranchisement in plain sight.
"After 'Vote Chori' was exposed in Bengaluru, it is clear that the Bihar SIR exercise is also compromised. When the living are struck off as dead, the death certificate is issued to democracy itself," the Congress said.
