Fact Check: Shocking! Is Central Bank of India is going to shut its 600 branches? Read the article to know the real story.
DFRAC Editor 2 min read
A post is becoming massively viral on social media. Sharing the post users are claiming that the Central Bank of India is preparing to close its 600 branches by 2023 . Further, a Facebook user wrote in his post, “Central Bank of India is going to shut 600 branches by March 2023.”
A similar claim was made on Twitter as well. A user @JwalantL wrote, “Central Bank of India is going to close 600 branches by March 2023. Employees should not panic, the temple will be ready soon.”
Fact Check:
On our fact check analysis we found the official Twitter handle the Bank. Where we found a tweet about this. A general notice was posted in the tweet to refute the viral claim.
Public Information.#CentralToYouSince1911 pic.twitter.com/TGxtjOvyrl
— Central Bank of India (@centralbank_in) May 8, 2022
Hence, the bank has not taken any decision to shut down of its branches during the financial year 2022-23. However, it is a regular practice for each bank to re-align/shift/merge/close/open branches on regular basis to achieve the set objectives of corporate business .”
Apart from this, we also got a report from Economic Times. The title of the article is that, “Central Bank of India says not yet decided on branch closures.”
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Conclusion:
Therefore , the viral is fake.There is no such decision till date.
| Claim Review: Central Bank of India is going to close its 600 branches . Claimant: @JwalantL and other Social media user Fact Check: Fake |
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