As part of its platinum jubilee celebrations, the RBI has been organising seminars, awareness campaigns and financial outreach camps across the country.

Its deputy chief said this was to 'maintain public confidence in the banking system, protect depositors' interest and provide cost-effective banking services to the public'.

'A district consultative committee of banks led by concerned district commissioner or magistrate will draw up a road map to provide banking services, in any form, to every village in the country with a population of over 2,000, at least once a week on a regular basis by March 2011,' she added.