Acting as a guiding agent to locate branches, ATMs; Finance Ministry launches Jan Dhan Darshak app

NewsBharati    26-Sep-2018
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New Delhi, September 26: Enabling easy access of financial service to the people of the country, the Finance Ministry has launched a mobile app called, “Jan Dhan Darshak” as a part of financial inclusion (FI) initiative. The app will act as a guiding agent for the common people in locating a financial service touch point at a given location in the country.

While over 5 lakh FI touch points (Bank branches, ATMs, Post Offices) have been mapped on this App, approx. 1.35 lakh Bank Mitras would be on-boarded by 1st December.

 

While locator apps are a common feature for many individual banks and financial service providers, in this era of inter-operable banking services, Jan Dhan Darshak app will be in a unique position to provide a citizen centric platform for locating financial service touch points across all providers such as banks, post office, CSC, etc. These services could be availed as per the needs and convenience of the common people.

Some of the salient features of this App are as follows:

• Find nearby Financial touch points, based on current location (Branches/ATM/Post offices).

• Search by place name.

• Search by place name also available with Voice Interface.

• Phone number of bank branches available in app, with the facility of call button for integrated dialing.

• Users’ feedback will go directly to the concerned bank for carrying out the necessary updation in data on financial touch points.