Bank of Baroda Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme

In Awards and Honours
September 20, 2015

The Bank of Baroda has been conferred the first prize under the All India Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of Government of India. The PSU has bagged the award for outstanding performance in official language implementation under the category of nationalized banks in the linguistic region – B – for the year 2014-15.

The bank received the award from President Pranab Mukherjee during a function held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on the occasion of Hindi Diwas. Union minister of home affairs Rajnath Singh was also present in the function. Earlier the bank has bagged several prizes of all India level for official language implementation.

Bank of Baroda

Bank of Baroda is an Indian state-owned banking and financial services company headquartered in Vadodara (earlier known as Baroda) in Gujarat, India. It is the second-largest bank in India, after State Bank of India.
In addition to its headquarters in its home state of Gujarat, it has a corporate headquarters in the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai.
The bank was founded by the Maratha, Maharaja of Baroda, H. H. Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III on 20 July 1908 in thePrincely State of Baroda, in Gujarat.
BoB has total assets in excess of ₹ 3.58 trillion, a network of 5307 branches in India and abroad.