Elderly Woman Walks For Kms To Collect Pension; SBI Reacts After FM Sitharaman’s Tweet

Bhubaneswar: An elderly woman was forced to walk barefoot for kilometres on end for collecting her pension. The incident happened in the Jharigaon block of Nabrangpur district of Odisha on April 17 (Monday).

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, sharing the video, hauled up State Bank of India (SBI) for the plight of the woman.

Finance Minister Sitharaman shared the video on Twitter and wrote: “Can see the manager of the State Bank of India (SBI) responding but yet wish Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the SBI to take cognisance of this and act humanely. Are they no bank Mitra?”

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Can see the manager of the @TheOfficialSBI responding but yet wish @DFS_India and @TheOfficialSBI take cognisance of this and act humanely. Are they no bank Mitra? @FinMinIndia https://t.co/a9MdVizHim

— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) April 20, 2023

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Madam, we are equally pained to see this video. Smt Surya Harijan in the video used to withdraw her old age pension from the CSP point situated in her village every month. Due to old age, her finger prints were not matching at the CSP point.

— State Bank of India (@TheOfficialSBI) April 20, 2023

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In the video, the frail woman can be seen walking with the support of a broken chair in the scorching heat.