 "Several public sector banks are hiring apprentices for the first time through their apprenticeship programmes to improve customer relations in semi-urban and rural areas, amid a gradual decline in the workforce over the years.")
Almost 42 per cent of director seats on the boards of 12 public sector banks (PSBs) lie vacant, the government told Parliament on Monday.
The Ministry of Finance, in a reply in Lok Sabha, said that the PSBs intimate the vacancies on the board of the bank and difficulties faced by them, if any, from time to time.
“The government takes all the required action to fill up the vacancies at the earliest possible,” said Minister of State (MOS) for the Ministry of Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
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