BANKING
HNB opens first Green Bank in Northern Province
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Hatton National Bank recently opened a state-of-the-art green bank
building in Jaffna. This is the first green bank building to be opened
in the Northern Region and is the second such building built by HNB. HNB
is the first Sri Lankan bank to open a green bank building in Nittambuwa
in 2011. The Chief Guest for the event wasJonathan Alles, Acting
CEO/Executive Director of HNB. He was accompanied by corporate
management members of HNB namely Dilshan Rodrigo, Chief Operating
Officer, Piyal Hennayake, Deputy General Manager , Services Arjuna
Ratnasabapathy, Assistant General Manager-Corporate Banking, Rohan
Thambirajah, Assistant General Manager, Network Management, Chiranthi
Cooray, Assistant General Manager, Human Resources and Sidath Wijeratne,
Chief Information Officer. The Chief Guest was welcomed by the Regional
Head, T. Jeyarajasingam and the Manager of the Jaffna Metro Customer
Centre , S. Sunthereswaran amidst a gathering of customers and
well-wishers.
Speaking on the occasion Jonathan Alles, Acting CEO/ Executive
Director, HNB said this new green bank building in Jaffna is a monument
dedicated to the people of the Jaffna peninsula for the unwavering
commitment and loyalty shown by them over the last 40 years when banking
with HNB. He said HNB is fully commited to the people in the North and
East with almost 50 customer centres in the region and noted that the
bank has evolved with tradition while making significant investments to
improve technology to provide innovative banking solutions. He further
stated that the new building will house the metro customer centre, the
private banking floor, a fully equipped training centre and a 260 seat
state of the art auditorium. Alles thanked his predeccessor, Rajendra
Theagarajah, for his vision and passion to build such a great bank
building in Jaffna.
Speaking on the occasion Shayan Kumaradas the Architect responsible
for the design of the building stated that the Jaffna Green Branch
Building is the first building to have integrated sustainable services,
monitored by the state of the art BMS system in the entire region and
the first such building in the North to have a state of the art 260 seat
auditorium and the first building to have elevated gardens along with a
solar sensitive automated louvre system. He further stated that
architecturally the building sets precedence to find the solution to
post war-regional architecture going beyond the normal trend of
Dravidian architectural style practiced in Jaffna which is normally
emphasized with domes, pinnacles and Dravidian column capitols.
Kumaradas further stated that the building tries to set a new trend in
post modern Jaffna architecture by carefully conserving the spatial and
progresional characteristics of local domestic architecture celebrated
with local art forms but moving forward with an out of the box idea of
ultra modern design in par with any building in today’s western world.
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People’s Bank donated a car (Honda Civic)
worth Rs: 08 million to a ‘Jaya Sri’ raffle draw winner I. L. M.
Najeema of Maruthamunai in the Kalmunai DS Division. Here, chief
guest South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL) Vice
Chancellor Dr. S. M. M. Ismail handing over the key to the
winner. People’s Bank Ampara Regional Manager K. P. Sandra
Sekara, Financial Coordinator S. M. Imamudeen, Maruthamunai
branch Manager M. A. M. Mohideen and People’s Bank Officials
also seen in the picture. Picture by. I. L. M. Rizan,
Addalaichenai Central Corr |
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