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HDFC Bank once again recognised and rewarded its energetic and dedicated staff, at the recently concluded Annual Awards Ceremony for 2016 held at the Grand Monarch in Thalawathugoda.
The Chief Guest of this event was the bank’s Chairman R.J. De Silva.
At the event, 10 Business Promotion Officers who had made outstanding contributions by achieving individual targets in the ‘Palm top doorstep banking service’ were recognised at the ceremony. Five branches of HDFC bank - Piliyandala, Kurunegala, Kalutara, Jaffna and Badulla - were selected as the best branches in the respective regions.
The Best Region award was won by the North Western Region while The Best Branch of the Year 2016 award was bagged by the Homagama Branch. The Homagama branch received three other awards for best branch in the large-scale category, best branch for deposit mobilisation and best branch for loan approvals.
The Moneragala branch was selected as the ‘Emerging Branch of the Year’, which is a new award category introduced this year. The Ratnapura branch was recognised for staff efficiency while two other branches of HDFC bank, including the Hyde Park and Gampaha branches, were also awarded for their dedicated performance in the areas of NPL management and savings mobilisation.
The Embilipitiya, Trincomalee and Polonnaruwa branches were awarded for the best performance in leasing finance, gold loans and development finance respectively. The small-scale category winner was the Nugegoda branch while the Badulla branch walked away as the winner in the medium-scale category. The bank’s Kalutara, Piliyandala and Peliyagoda branches were the runners-up in the large, medium and small-scale categories.
The children of staff members who have achieved the best results at the GCE Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examinations were also recognised with cash prizes.
The directors of HDFC bank M. Surendran, P.M. Gunawardhana, N. Wijeyanathan, Chief Executive Officer/General Manager Upali Hettiarachchi, Chief Operating Officer S. Dissanayake and all the members of the corporate and senior management as well as the regional managers, branch managers and other members of the bank’s staff also attended the event.