In those days, Baroda’s mobile bank was empowered by an altogether different technology – the internal combustion engine. Bank of Baroda mobile banking was a bank on wheels. It would go – as it still does – from village to village, bringing banking to rural and unbanked areas.
There are many who can still recollect the flurry of activity that would greet the van as it arrived in a village. At that time, banking was concentrated in urban areas. Transport facilities were not as developed and made it difficult to reach certain localities where population was sparse. The Bank of Baroda mobile thus contributed to financial access in rural areas.