Panaji, 28th August, 2015 … LIC is completing 59 years of its service to the nation on 1st Sept. 2015. LIC’s Divisional Office with its 11 Branches, 3 satellite offices, Pension & Group Scheme unit and Customer Zone in the state of Goa, will celebrate the 59th Anniversary Insurance week from 1.9.2015 to 7.9.2015.
On 1st of September 1956, The Life Insurance Corporation of India ( LIC ) embarked upon its momentous journey in true spirit of serving the people and nation as a whole. Since then, it has spearheaded the financial and infrastructure development of the nation. The performance of LIC has been exemplary and it has been growing from strength to strength, be it customer base, agency network, branch office network, and the like. LIC has played a significant role in spreading life insurance among the masses and mobilization of people’s money for people’s welfare. Even after the entry of private insurers for almost a decade now, LIC continues to be the frontrunner in the industry in terms of the market share.
True to the spirit of nationalization, the Corporation has deployed its funds to the best advantage of LIC policyholders as well as for the community as a whole. National priorities and the obligation of reasonable returns to the policy holders are the main criteria of LIC’s investments.
Inaugural ceremony of the Insurance Week will be held at Jeevan Vishwas Patto, Panaji on 1stSeptember, 2015. Shri Narayan R. Bandekar, MD & CEO NRB Group will be the Guest of honour for the ceremony.
During the Insurance week, many initiatives such as, additional help desks for LIC Customers in the branch offices, special drive for creating awareness of Insurance in rural areas, Customers Meets at our various offices etc., have been planned.
On the 4th Sept.2015, all the offices of LIC would be holding Agents recruitment drive, wherein enrolment to join the Corporation as a Life Insurance Agent would be done. Agents Day would be celebrated on the 5th of September,2015 with various competitions being held for them at our offices.
Customer Service Counters at offices of the Paying Authorities i.e. Organizations who are having salary savings schemes with LIC. In these counters, the employees who are policyholders with LIC would be helped to submit their “Contact details (Mobile No & or e mail id) and the bank details” to facilitate settlements of policy claims through NEFT. LIC Customers can now walk in to any offices of their Corporation to submit their “Contact details(Mobile No & or email id) and Bank Account details” to facilitate updation of these details in their respective policies. Drawing Competitions for school children of 10 schools have also been organized during the week .
The valedictory function of the Week would be held on 7th of sept.2015 at the Auditorium, Directorate of Museum, EDC Complex, Patto, Panaji.