♥ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON NATIONALISED BANKS ♥

1.The oldest Joint Stock Bank of India --Allahabad Bank

2. The bank founded by Freedom
Fighter Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi
Sitaramayya --Andhra Bank

3. First bank to open a branch outside India -- Bank of India, London, 1946

4. The first bank to be given an ISO
9002 certificate for one of its branches--Canara Bank

5. The Postal Dept has issued a
commemorative stamp in the name of this bank celebrating 100 years in 2011--Central Bank of India

6. First Indian Bank to be wholly
owned by Indians--Central Bank of
India

7. The bank formed on the efforts of
Lala Lajpat Rai --Punjab National Bank

8. The only merger of nationalised
banks took place between --Punjab
National Bank and New Bank of India
in 1993

9. The bank whose brand equity is
"Pygmy Deposit Scheme" --Syndicate Bank

10. The bank which was conceived by Shri GD Birla --UCO Bank

11. The bank which was inaugurated
by Mahatma Gandhi in 1919 -- Union
Bank of India

12. The largest among nationalised
banks --Punjab National Bank

13. The bank established in the year
1913 as Bank of Mysore Ltd. at the
instance of the banking committee
headed by the great Engineer-States
man, Late Dr. Sir M.Visvesvaraya --
State Bank of Mysore.