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Andhra Bank to focus on agri lending portfolio

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Hyderabad , Aug. 24

IN a bid to significantly increase its agriculture-lending portfolio, Andhra Bank has recruited 71 agriculture graduates and post-graduates from different universities of the country as Rural Development Officers.

In a press release here, the bank said these new recruits were given an exclusive task of implementing various rural development schemes of the bank and prepare exhaustive plans for meeting various credit needs of the cross section of villagers in the service area villages of the bank.

Andhra Bank said it has recently conducted week-long orientation training to these new recruits to equip them to prepare plans of action on rural development and implementing them.

Senior officials from the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), Reserve Bank of India and National Bank for Rural Development (Nabard) addressed these recruits.

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