Corporation Bank will construct 100 toilets across the country in the schools that do not have the facility under the ‘Swachh Vidyalaya’ scheme as part of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.
SR Bansal, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank, who led a cleaning campaign in Udupi on Sunday as part of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, said this on Sunday.
Participating in the event, he said that the bank will construct five toilets in the schools in Udupi region of the bank. The bank has plans to conduct many such campaigns at other places also throughout the country, he said.
A press release by the bank said here that a large number of employees took part in the programme. They cleaned the Udupi bus stand and spruced up the area. The message was also conveyed to the people that it is not a onetime task but should a continuous process.
Speaking on the occasion, Bansal said that the ‘Swachh Bharat’ movement is a best tribute that can be given to the Father of Nation Mahatama Gandhi. Corporation Bank conducted the campaign at Udupi, which happens to be the birthplace place of the bank. The bank started functioning on March 12 1906 in the temple town of Udupi under the leadership of late Khan Bahadur Haji Abdullah Haji Kasim Saheb Bahadur, a philanthropist.