Monday, May 24, 2010

SBI offers helping hand to Mangalore air crash victims’ families

The plane crash at Mangalore airport on Saturday morning killing all except 8 passengers has left the country in shock and grief. To help the families of the victims, the country’s largest bank, State Bank of India has offered a helping hand. It will provide assistance in transferring funds free of cost to the families of the victims, the official sources said.

"SBI has come forward to provide assistance to families of victims who perished in the crash near Bajpe airport here yesterday," Karnataka Coastal Development Authority Chairman Nagaraj Shetty, who is coordinating the operation at Wenlock hospital here, said.

After meeting a senior bank officer at the hospital Nagaraj said, he has been told that assistance to transfer funds and other processing services will be provided free of cost at SBI’s branches in Mangalore, select branches in Kerala and the one in Dubai.

He added, this will include compensation amounts announced by Karnataka government and the centre.

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