AGARTALA, Dec 18 (TIWN): To mark the celebration of the 66th Foundation Day of United Bank of India on Friday, a week long programme has been conducted where the official interacted with the consumers and various other initiatives have been taken.

As a part of the programme, on Friday a consumer interaction session was organized at Pragna Bhawan in the evening.

During the session, selected consumers from various parts of the State were assembled and  had interaction with the officials.

United Bank of India is an Indian government-owned financial services company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal.

 Presently the bank has a three-tier organisational setup consisting of its Head office in Kolkata, 35 Regional offices and 2005 branches spread all over India.

However, the bank has three full-fledged overseas branches, one each at Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai.

On Friday with the initiatives of the Tripura UBI various essential items have been distributed among the children in the children’s home. During the programme, Tripura Regional Manager Tapan Kumar Patra, Chief Manager Swapan Kumar Das and others were present.

It has been mentioned that Principal Secretary of Rural Department Dr. G.S.G Ayyangar and were present at the programme.

UBI was the result of the merger in 1950 of four Bengali banks: Comilla Banking Corporation (founded by Narendra Chandra Dutta in 1914 in what is now Bangladesh), Bengal Central Bank (founded by Sri J.C. Das in 1918), Comilla Union Bank (founded by Sri L.B. Dutta in 1922) and Hooghly Bank (founded by Sri D.N. Mukherjeee 1932).

All four had suffered runs in December 1950 after the failure of the Nath Bank. The Reserve Bank of India assisted the banks in amalgamating to form United Bank of India.