Delhi: 7,800 more seek to open new bank accounts at labour camps

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Labour camps across Delhi received 7,800 more applications for new bank accounts, a day after the Delhi government set up 67 camps to assist workers in the organised and unorganised sector without bank accounts. While many of the applications received at various camps were from those who already have bank accounts, some people were left out of the process for the want of identity proofs. At a camp near the Shiv temple in Karol Bagh's Bappa Nagar, scores of workers, home makers and shopkeepers crowded around the bankers, demanding application forms from staff of Canara Bank, and State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur.