One need not spend any more sleepless nights over the family jewelry brought home ahead of a marriage celebration or a party. Now, you can wear them at any time through locker available at a Head office in the vicinity, participate in the marriage celebrations, return your wares to the locker and go home, safely locking away your worries.
The premier public sector bank, SDBL, has unveiled this concept of a locker facility, at the prime location of New Road, Pokhara, where the bank’s head office is located. The bank plans to make this facility available in the other branches also as soon as possible.So far, locker facilities are available only during business hours of the bank. The users have to take their valuables, particularly jewelry during business hours and keep them at home till the locker facility is available again. This involves the risk of loss or theft. The same is the case with important documents.

“Lockers are available in, carrying an annual fee Rs 2000. Given gold prices are hovering above Rs 55,000 per sovereign (1 Tola) even individual customers may not feel it is too high,” CEO of Shangri-la bank Mr.Hari Prasad Gurung added.

The facility would also cater to the corporate sector, businessmen and other banks too, besides individuals for activities like safekeeping of legal and other documents.
Some companies transfer their day’s transactions into compact discs (CDs) and keep these at a safe place away from the office as a backup or disaster management mechanism. While banks or branches close much ahead of other corporates, the round-the-clock facilities like this one would prove to be more useful and safer than the private lockers available now.
It will also help other banks and financial firms dealing in safekeeping of gold and other valuables.
As part of the customer-centric approach, the bank had announced to give 25% discount on advance booking on the Locker Service.

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