Bhubaneswar : Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik Tuesday inaugurated a state-of-the-art phone banking centre at Maitri Vihar in the city. The centre has employed 1200 persons out of which 60 percent are women. The banking centre has been powered by artificial intelligence and robotics. It is well equipped to serve the Bank’s retail, business and corporate customers across the country. The Chief Minister thanked the Bank’s authorities to bring in modern technology to banking system. It can bring efficiency to the system and can provide hassle-free seamless service to the customers, he emphasised. He asked the ICICI Bank to further scale up the centre and provide more job opportunities. He assured that the state will extend all support to the endeavour. Secretary to CM (5-T) Shri V.K. Pandian was present on the occasion. Executive Director of ICICI Bank Shri Sandeep Batra gave the welcome address.