People’s Leasing & Finance PLC (PLC), Kandy branch celebrated its 20th anniversary recently with the participation of Senior Management of PLC, Asela Bandara, Branch Manager, Kandy PLC, branch managers of Kandy District PLC branches, many stake holders including a leading set of customers of the Kandy branch and the staff.
To coincide with the occasion a CSR activity was carried out by opening savings accounts with Rs 250/- each for 1000 odd school children and offering each of these children with Rs 1,000 worth of a bag full of school stationery.
In addition to this, the Kandy branch took steps to fulfill basic needs of the village schools as a part of the CSR.
PLC’s Kandy branch was commissioned in February 1998 as the first PLC branch unveiled outside Colombo. The branch opened having its first manager I L A Gaffar with two other officials, today has a staff of 30 and assets worth of Rs. three billion. It is recognized as one of the best PLC branches outside Colombo.
Kandy became the first PLC branch to achieve a profit of Rs 150 million. It has offered customers leasing and loan facilities worth of Rs 3.5 billion as of today and is the PLC branch that has the most amount of short term investments.
Over 2000 customers have invested in the branch exceeding 2.5 billion rupees. These feats made PLC Kandy branch to become the best PLC branch in 2013/14 and 2014/15 in the ‘The Best PLC Branch of the Year’ competition organized by PLC Head Office’ and also PLC Kandy branch won the first runner-up in 2004, 2008/09, 2009/10 and in 2015/16 in same competition.Asela Bandara, The Manager, Kandy PLC branch, said, “Over the past 20 years we have built close relationships with people in Kandy and did business with the intent of upgrading their lives thus we achieved these recognitions. I pay my gratitude to my staff members who were the backbone behind the success story of the branch”.
PLC Kandy branch plays a vital role as regards CSR in the vicinity. Over the past 20 years, the branch has engaged in many worthy CSR projects.
The branch offered Nescafe free of charge to people who come to see Kandy Esala Perahera constantly for nine years. Last year it offered ‘Gilanpasa’ to 10,000 Buddhist priests and Dasa Sil Mathavo who came to see the Perahera.
Another special CSR by the branch was contributing towards increasing greenery in the ‘Udawatta Kele’ in Kandy town with a view to countering air pollution within the city.
People’s Leasing Company was commissioned in 1995 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the biggest state bank in Sri Lanka, the People’s Bank.
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