EBL introduces mobile banking Kathmandu, September 26: Everest Bank Ltd (EBL) has introduced mobile vehicle banking service through at Birtamod branch, Jhapa. Laxman Kumar Hamal, acting CDO of Jhapa inaugurated the mobile vehicle at Birtamod, today. Through the mobile vehicle, the branch will provide various banking facilities at Bhadrapur, Damak, Kakadbhitta, and Sanischare. EBL claims that it is the first of its kind of service in the country. “Mobile banking will be beneficial to the general public because it provides servi-ce that are deprived of proper banking facilities and subsequently it will make the general public economically strong,” Hamal said. Jaspal Singh Jass, executive director of the bank highlighted the branch and its services during the inauguration programme. During the last fiscal year, EBL has opened three branches; in Balaju, Kathmandu, Nepalgunj and Birtamod in Jhapa. It added a branch at Baglung in Bhadra, making 22 branches in its network and it currently enjoys the status of the largest network among the private sector banks in the country. Permission has already been received from NRB to open a branch at Gwarko in Lalitpur. The bank has also received approval from NRB to open three more branches outside Kathmandu valley — one each in Tulsipur, Pokhara and Narayanghat.