Media Release

Mangalore, Jan 27: A Krishna Kumar, managing director and group executive (NB), State Bank of India (SBI), Corporate Centre, Mumbai, donated water purifiers to 11 schools under the corporate social responsibility programme of SBI to provide clean drinking water to the future citizens of the country, during a function held at their commercial branch on Thursday January 26.

State Bank of India, the country, largest bank earmarks a portion of its profit every year for various social causes.

Water related diseases are the primary cause of fatality amongst children in the world. Many schools find it an uphill task to provide potable water to their students. With a view to supplement the efforts of the schools all over the country in this regard, SBI has decided to donate water purifiers to schools which require this through more than 10,000 branches of the bank, under its corporate social responsibility programme.

This is a nationwide programme to be implemented throughout the country and the target date for completion is February 28, 2012.