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With more than 120 years of strong existence and a network of 6564 branch offices including 3 foreign branches & One Offshore Banking Unit, 8348 ATMs as on Mar’15, Punjab National Bank is serving more than 9 crore esteemed customers. PNB, being one of the largest Nationalized Banks, has continued to provide prudent and trustworthy banking services to its customers. The Bank enjoys strong fundamentals, large franchise value and good brand image. To meet the growing aspirations of the customers and compete in today’s tough conditions, the Bank offers wide range of products and services.

The Bank has a very humble but a very inspiring beginning. On 14th September 1918, "The Saraswat Co-operative Banking Society" was founded. Mr. J.K. Parulkar became its first Chairman, Mr. N.B. Thakur, the first Vice-Chairman, Mr. P.N. Warde, the first Secretary and Mr. Shivram Gopal Rajadhyaksha, the first Treasurer. These were people with deep and abiding ideals, faith, vision, optimism and entrepreneurial skills. These dedicated men in charge of the Society had a commendable sense of service and duty imbibed in them. Even today, our honorable founders inspire a sense of awe and respect in the Bank and amongst the shareholders. The Society was initially set up to help families in distress. Its objective was to provide temporary accommodation to its members in eventualities such as weddings of dependent members of the family, repayment of debt and expenses of medical treatment etc. The Society was converted into a full-fledged Urban Co-operative Bank in the year 1933.