On May 10, 2021, HDFC Bank and Common Services Centers (CSCs) announced the launch of a chatbot called ‘Eva’ on CSC’s Digital Seva Portal to support Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs).
Objective: To provide banking services to last-mile rural consumers.
Uses of Chatbot – Eva:
i.Under Eva, the VLEs could become a Business Correspondent (BC) by getting access to the training content and taking a quiz before getting the certification.
ii.VLEs could learn about HDFC Bank’s products and services, account opening, and loan in Eva.
iii.Around 1,27,348 VLEs were currently providing HDFC Bank’s products and services in semi-urban and rural India.
iv.Among those VLEs, 15,791 are BC and they will help people to save through recurring and fixed deposits and enable them to avail themselves – home loans, car loans, tractor loans, and two-wheeler loans.
Note – Electronic Virtual Assistant (Eva) is India’s first AI (artificial intelligence)-based banking chatbot, launched in 2017.
Recent Related News:
On 8th March 2021, the HDFC Bank has launched “SmartUp Unnati”, a mentoring program by women for women entrepreneurs. Under this programme, senior women leaders from HDFC bank with expertise spanning domains will mentor women entrepreneurs to achieve their goals in the next year.
About Common Service Centres(CSC) e-Governance Services India Limited:
It is an Information and Communication Technologies(ICT) enabled front end service delivery point, formed under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), in May 2006 to offer web-enabled e-governance services for G2C (government-to-citizen) and other B2C (business-to-citizen).
Headquarters – New Delhi
Managing Director – Dinesh Tyagi
About HDFC Bank:
Establishment – 1994
Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
MD & CEO – Sashidhar Jagdishan
Tagline– We understand your world
