Day 124

 My Employers-7

The assignment in Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd. was my last official engagement. My association with this Bank started since 1979 , when I took a  loan from them for educational purpose. That made me a Tiny shareholder of the Bank too.

Mr. S K Banerjee, the former MD  and current Board member of the Bank was on the Board/council of IIBF for long  and we knew each other for over a decade.  I joined the Bank as the Principal at their Staff Learning Centre, Vashi in 2015. This was a very satisfying innings of my life, more so it came at the  fag end of my official life. 

Bank has a  highly state- of- the- art Staff Learning Centre, which is a great pride for a co-operative bank. 

• During my period a large number of senior bankers had come as guest faculty there. 
• I was proud to show them around the training facility. 
• All of them invariably expressed great wonder about the foresight and investment made by the Bank in the training field.

That  goes to the credit of  the great visionaries of the Bank, especially Late Ekanath Thakur sir , who had once worked in SBI. He tried to take the Bank to the highest echelons of banking  experience in all sense of the word.

•  In a matter of less than  20 years, the bank scaled unparalleled growth in the co-operative sector. 
• Today it is the Number One co-operative bank in the country giving a run even to banks in the private and other sectors too.
• Bank has won many awards from bodies like Forbes International, BCSBI and IBA
•  Bank is in the forefront in Technology /Digital Banking and has bagged the Best Technology Bank for over 5 years in succession. 
•  It is indeed a pleasure to use the Mobile Banking app of SB.
• The Bank is  a fore runner in CSR activities too. Even  this year, the Bank   donated a Crore of Rupees to the flood victims in the Konkan region.

The Bank has kept high benchmarks ahead. 

• With the able support of over 4000 Value based, Trained, Committed, Determined, Dedicated  and  Customer friendly staff, backed by a Highly Professional Board of Directors, those visions are sure to be fulfilled in the time to come.

• MAY THE BANK  REACH ITS CHERISHED VISION OF TOTAL BUSINESS OF RS. 1,00,000 CRORE EARLY, BUT POSITIVELY BY 2025 WHICH IS THE ARDENT DESIRE, WISH AND PRAYER OF THIS TINY SHAREHOLDER.

I had opportunities to interact with the top management including Board members of the Bank. All those experiences have left lasting good memories.

•  Being part of the L&D wing of a state- of- the- art bank, aspiring to be the best was a challenging and learning experience. 
• I feel lucky that I could get such an opportunity at the end of my official innings.
•  I feel indebted to SB  thus for very many reasons.
• Suffice to say that the five years in the Bank was memorable and will be etched in the mind forever .

Thus ends my journey in the work front. 47 plus years have been quite long ,eventful and with numerous opportunities and potentials.

·    Majority of my career time was spent in areas that I really loved viz. faculty, academics, publication, staff learning centre and staff colleges.

·     Such opportunities are indeed rare in banking- to work in areas  one  really likes. 

 I thank God Almighty for those golden moments and especially Ma Saraswati for Her apar krupa-  benign blessings-always which made all these possible.

Be happy. Be safe.

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