PRADHAN MANTRI JAN DHAN YOJNA -
What is PM Jan Dhan Yojna? Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna can be considered as the most important scheme initiated by the government in order to achieve the goal of financial inclusion. Under this scheme the public sector as well as the private sector banks, both have to provide bank account to every single individual of the age 18 or above. The scheme was initiated on 28th August 2014. On the first day itself 77 thousand camps were set up throughout the country and 1.5 crore bank accounts were opened. It was a World Record. More than 33 crore bank accounts have been opened under this scheme. What is significant of PM Jan Dhan Yojna? In order to ensure that every individual is provided with a bank account, Know Your Customer (KYC) norms were eased. Along with the traditional identity proofs and address proofs even the job cards pr...