D.A.V EAST OF LONI ROAD

FINANCIAL LITERACY DRIVE

As part of the drive to initiate financial literacy, RBI in its series of workshops conducted in various schools all across the country, conducted its first workshop in D.A.V East of Loni Road, Delhi on 5^th October 2012 for the students of classes X to XII. The workshop was conducted under the resource persons Mr Anupam Sharma, Assistant Manager RBI and Mr Pal, Assistant Manager RBI. Wherein they familiarize the students with RBI (Reserve Bank of India), gave them knowledge of important financial terms, financial inclusion etc. It enlightened students on various financial aspects like: where and how Indian currency is published, how to identify the original and fake currency notes, fake e mails related to lotteries, fake bank names, securing ones bank accounts from hacking and phishing etc.In the second session of this workshop, students were told about the evolution of money and credit system. Documentaries were shown to them for providing basic information about RBI, its role and various functions. Information and awareness about bank and their functioning, role of banking ombudsman was given to the students. Students were also told the procedure, for filing their complaints related to their bank, to Banking ombudsman. The aim of this programme was used to create awareness about financial literacy and for this; importance to have a bank account was explained to them. The school is also helping RBI to achieve this aim by spreading  awareness about financial literacy to the other students and parents.