United Bank of India

United Bank of India
	Bank sign in Mumbai, India
Type	Public
Founded	1950, India.
Headquarters	Kolkata
Key people	S.C.Gupta, Chairman & MD
Industry	Financial; Commercial banks
Website	www.unitedbankofindia.com

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United Bank of India, is government-owned and one of India's major commercial banks. Presently the bank has a three-tier organisational setup consisting of its Head office in Kolkata, 28 Regional offices and 1453 branches spread all over India. However, its major presence is in eastern India. Due to a common acronym (UBI), which it shares with Union Bank of India, which also has an all-India presence, the public sometimes confuses the two banks.

On March 30, 2009, the Indian government decided to approve the restructuring United Bank of India.[^[1]] The cabinet has approved the government's proposal to investing 2.50 billion rupees in shares by March 31, and another 5.50 billion in the next fiscal year in Tier-I capital instruments. The move is part of the Indian government's program to improve the capital base of the state-owned banks.

[edit] History

United Bank of India was the result of the merger in 1950 of four Bengali banks: Comilla Banking Corporation (founded by Narendra Chandra Datta in 1914 in what is now Bangladesh), Bengal Central Bank (founded by Sri J.C. Das in 1918), Comilla Union Bank (founded by Sri L.B. Dutta in 1922) and Hooghly Bank (founded by Sri D.N. Mukherjeee 1932).

1961 UBI merged in Cuttack Bank and Tezpur Industrial Bank.
1969 On 19 July, the Government of India nationalized UBI, along with 13 other major Indian commercial banks. At the time of nationalization UBI had only 174 branches.
1973 UBI acquired Hindusthan Mercantile Bank.
1976 UBI acquired Narang Bank of India.