Banking Is Also A Teacher- “ To teach is to learn twice; when one teaches, two learn”

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Banking Is Also A Teacher– “ To teach is to learn twice; when one teaches, two learn”. India celebrates Teachers Day on 5th September in honour of edu- cators who pull aspirant Indians from vicissitude of ignorance into attributes of awakeness to success. Lead by the the traditional Guru, entire eco system of Educational Institutions, Internet, Google & Banks, are working to carve out a new India. The result is emergence of a confident and forward looking Indian, raring for get-set-go…

In 1991, Benin, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica and Pakistan were 64 countries that received more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) than India did. By 2020, India is the fifth largest recipient of FDI in the world. As per RBI, FDI increased from $ 97 million ( Rs.600 cr) in 1991 to $ 81722 million ( Rs.60,000 cr) in 2021. Opening of economy meant all Indians have access to smart tv sets, latest cars, spunky mobiles and best medical equipments. Most of this silent revolution in country has been carried by Banks through intuitive implementation of Monetary Pol- icy and Fiscal Policy of the government. No doubt, out of every $ 100 invested worldwide, $ 20 are invested in India.

In India, banking is one profession that creates all other profes- sions. Among the recognised educators of country’s resurgence into world’s fourth largest economy are Indian banks who stand tall. As ful- crum for growth, banks have been melting hours into minutes in re-building the nation, by churning the economic facade of the so- ciety, many customers at a time. Banks have been customising attrac- tive deposit schemes as per Indian ethos and diverting the corpus so created, to government and corporates to evolve tangible assets that bring jobs and quality products. A large number of self employment schemes in agriculture, small scale industry and large corporate seg- ment are designed and propagated for Indian entrepreneurs to move forward gainfully. There are no 9-to-5 classes to teach benefits of bank- ing; instead entire band-width is spent in catering realtime loan products to learn while one earns.

Banks believe that teaching budding entrepreneurs to count is fine, but teaching what counts is best. Designed on self learning models,

multiple employment oriented projects are funded day in and day out generating pools of millionaires across length and breadth of coun- try.Bankers operate on the plan that the task of modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Bankers act as wak- eners since they realise that without teachers, life would have no class.

Banking education through hit and trial makes borrowers take leadership responsibilities and take plunge into riverine challenges to perfect the art of swimming with the tide. Interest friendly loans without collateral are dished out because nine-tenth of education is encouragement which can enthuse self reliance. Banking education discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool, their lack of understanding. Bankers teach by drawing on their experience of success and failures of Units in their portfolio. They rotate success stories of startups to inspire. Fully aware that customers don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care, they guide applicants through the loan process to be prudent businessmen and contribute to GDP through productivity. Banking gives a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail. The insight from bankers has moulded freshers into stalwarts, making some say that Indian banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

Fortunately for India, the nationalisation has taken banks to all nooks and corners of country and there are Nationalised banks, Private banks, Cooperative Banks and Payment banks all numbering around 200,000 of branches. A total of 20 lac employees manage these branches.Banks are first to develop leadership deep inside villages through posting of branch managers in each branch who take multiple crucial fi- nancial decisions day in and day out from their 10×10 feet cubicles shaping the future of vast country. This talent pool has poised India on way to $ 5.0 trillion economy through teaching and financing. The number of job providers is bound to grow faster than Job seekers.

To a business man today a Banker is as important as a Teacher. Given a hypothetical scenario where a Teacher, who is revered next to God, and Banker arrive together to meet a successful Indian en- trepreneur, it is possible that the Banker would get equal respect that the teacher gets. This is because a Banker has assumed the double role of teacher as well as financier.

Rightly said,” The whole purpose of financial education is turn the mirrors into windows.” Thank you teacher for creating bankers.

  – Hargovind Sachdev ( hargovindsachdev@gmail.com)

About the author

Mr. Hargovind Sachdev is an Ex-Banker, GM(Retd) of State Bank of India. Has over 39 years of experience in banking, having occupied senior positions in UCO Bank, United Bank of India,State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Travancore & State Bank of India where he headed the Central European Credit Desk at Frankfurt,Germany from 2006 to 2011 covering 15 countries of Central Europe.Has

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undergone International Banking Training from Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines in the Year 2003 and a Multi-currency lending-technique training at the Euro Money Institute, London in  2009.

 

He has specialisation in Credit, Foreign Exchange,Vigilance, Monitoring & appraisal of Corporate Loans, MSME Credit,Gold Loans, Agricultural Loans & NRI Business Management in assets & liabilities. As a Forensic Auditor, he has conducted various Transaction Audits allotted by Banks.

 

He was felicitated by the Central Vigilance Commissioner , Sh. C.V Chowdhry for winning first prize for best article on Preventive Vigilance in 2015. He is also an accomplished Public Speaker having conducted multiple Motivational Seminars for institutions like ONGC, National Housing Bank & Bank of Baroda. He is an Independent Director & consultant to various big entities in corporate sector at present.

 

 

 

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