Key Features
Special features of our financial institution
· It is an upgraded model of microfinance called ‘Community-owned Micro-banking’- an initiative to involve group members into the institution’s ownership/management through shareholding,
· It has designed the ‘credit first individual intervention approach’ to reach the poorest of the poor,
· It has designed C+++ services including individual counseling, skill advancement, entrepreneurship development, business/financial counselling etc as per the members’ requirement and potential,
· It is a model enhancing financial mobilization in the community independently providing professional supports from the institution,
· Its products are designed based on the need analysis of the deprived groups of the community, i.e. promoting enterprises based on native skill, knowledge, arts and culture into a commercially viable level,
· Child/youth saving scheme has been a part of the services to create saving habit as a life skill,
· It contributes for Green Growth Development by promoting green-jobs through green-entreprenuership and green-financing.
· It promotes innovative community projects such as community farming, community forestry, rural eco-tourism, renewable energy, community irrigation, community resilience etc,
· It is digital based approach with sophisticated banking software which includes SMS banking, mobile banking etc.
· It is a home-grown approach of community financing focusing to social justice and economic empowerment.