ICICI to make 600 villages digitally-enabled in 2017

New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) The ICICI Group on Tuesday said it has made 100 villages digitally-enabled in 2017 while planning to transform another 500 by the year-end.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while inaugurating the 100 ICICI digital villages here said: “The ICICI initiative should be followed by other banks in rural areas.”

ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar said: “We have transformed 100 villages across the country in 100 days. We intend to expand the number of such villages by another 500 by December 2017.”