M’lore: State Bank of Mysore Celebrates Beginning of Centenary with Walk from Alake to Hampank

By Ashritha D’Souza
Pics by John V Tauro
Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 02 Oct 2013:  October 2 happened to be beginning of Centenary Year for State Bank of Mysore (SBM), apart from Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations.  It was founded by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, the then Maharaja of Mysore and the great visionary and engineer, Sir M Visvesvaraya, on October 2 1913.  SBM celebrated its Centenary Year Day here by holding a ‘Centenary Walk’ from Alake to Hampanakatta on Wednesday October 2.

Over 600 staff, their family members and customers of Mangalore City and nearby branches participated in an hour long Jatha, which was inaugurated by Dr Shikaripura Krishnamurthy, retired Professor and a senior customer of the SBM, who got prestigious national and international awards for his role of Mahatma Gandhi in the Kannada movie, ‘Koormavatara’, directed by Girish Kasaravalli.

 

In the centenary programme held at Dakshina Kannada District Government Employees’ Association Hall, Dr Shikaripura Krishnamurthy, delivered his inaugural address and called the people to adopt Gandhian principles and the long-vision and values of Sir M Visvesvaraya.  He recalled his memories with the SBM over decades and advised the staff to continue the excellent customer service being rendered now and wished all success for the century old bank. 

The Bank has also felicitated its 14 long-standing customers of Mangalore city and nearby branches- representing senior citizens, ex-servicemen, social activists, NRIs, businessmen etc.  While Eric Correa spoke on behalf of the customers, Paul Andrade and Austin Peris, spoke on behalf of retired officers and staff of the Bank. M R Jayesha, Deputy General Manager, Mangalore Zone presided the function.

S Venugopal, Assistant General Manager-LCPC and U Diwakara Poojary, Assistant General Manager-CPPC was present on the dais. Yogesh Karkera, zonal secretary, SBM Officers’ Association and Devadas Pai, joint secretary of SBM Employees’ Union, spoke on the occasion. 

Ranganath welcomed the gathering.  Attur Chaiyabba proposed vote of thanks.  S Sringeswara Sharma, Assistant General Manager compered the programme. 

 

Opening of Specialized NRI Branch at Mangalore:

On the occasion of its Centenary Year, SBM will be opening 101 branches throughout the country on Saturday October 5.  In order to give focused attention for NRIs of Mangalore, SBM is opening a specialized NRI branch at Chilimbi, Mangalore on that day, apart from other 6 new branches in Dakshina Kannada & Udupi Districts. They are- Subrahmanya, Melkar, Vittal, Kadaba, Bailoor and Tekkatte.