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Financial Inclusion in India - Yet Another Ritual or An Integrated Tool For Poverty Alleviation
Financial Inclusion in India - Yet Another Ritual or An Integrated Tool For Poverty Alleviation
Financial Inclusion in India - Yet Another Ritual or An Integrated Tool For Poverty Alleviation
Financial
Exclusion
Financial Financial
Discrimination Illiteracy
Financial
Exploitation
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Who are Financially Excluded
1. Poor
2. Socially under-privileged
3. Disabled
4. Old as well as children
5. Women
6. Uneducated
7. Ethnic Minorities
8. Un-employed
Payments +
Remittances Financial Inclusion Insurance
Lack of
Financial Affordable Credit Assets (for
Advice
Collateral)
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Financial Inclusion – Institutionalisation
milestones since early 1900’s
1904 - Cooperative Societies Act
1954 - Rural Credit Survey Committee
1955 - State Bank fo India created for rural penetration
1969 - 19 Commercial Bank Nationalised, All India Rural
Credit Review Committee
1970 - Lead Bank Scheme - States/Districts
1975 - Regional Rural Bank - Hybrid banks
1981 - 6 more Commercial Banks nationalised
1992 - SHG - Bank Linkage Programme
2001 - Kisan Credit Card / Swarojgar Credit Card / Gramin
Tatkal Card
2006- Committee on Financial Inclusion Set up
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State Bank of India
• Imperial Bank of India nationalised in 1955
• Opened 400 rural branches immediately
• SBG with seven other associates - 1959
• Rural, Village, Satellite, ADBs, ABD Branches
• Employed Graduates in Agri and Veterinary
Sciences
• Adopted Villages, Slums and Schools
• Group Guarantee Scheme for liberal lending
• Technology, Biometric ATMs, hill-tops, waterways
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SBI’s Mobile ATM in Kerala
Extent of States
Financial
Exclusion
> 75% Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram,
Manipur, Assam, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand
50 to 75% Bihar, Chattisgarh, Orissa
Himachal Pradesh, J & K, UP, Nagaland, Tripura,
Sikkim
25 to 50% Karnataka, Kerla, MP, Maharashtra,
Punjab, Tamilnadu, West Bengal,
< 25% Andhra Pradesh,
Good education
Macro -environment
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Eleventh Plan (2007-2012)
Is divided into three volumes (I) Inclusive Growth (II) Social Sector and
(III) Agri-culture, Rural Development, Industry, Services and
Physical Infrastructure
Objectives:-
1. Income and Poverty:
– Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10% and maintain at 10% in
the next Plan to double the per capita income by 2016-17
– Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year to ensure a
broader spread of benefits
– Create 70 million new work opportunities
– Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%
– Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 per cent
– Reduce the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10
percentage points
NABARD
TOTAL
Rural 19,275 12,060 1,138 0 32,473
Semi-urban 10,903 2,037 1,761 2 14,703
Urban 8,737 359 1,322 20 10,438
Metro 7,203 17 1,155 180 8,555
Total 46,118 14,473 5,376 202 66,169
NABARD
11 700
No of SHGs in Thousands
10
9 600
8 500
7
6 400
5 300
4
3 200
2
100
1
0 0
1994-95
1995-96
1998-99
2001-02
2002-03
1992-93
1993-94
1996-97
1997-98
1999-00
2000-01
No. of SHGs in Thousands No. of Households in Million
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Micro-Finance reach in India
• Microfinance in India through its two major channels –
SHG Linkage and MFIs – served over 33 million Indians,
up by 9 million over FY 2006-07
• 4 out of 5 microfinance clients in India are women.
• Micro-credit portfolio of India Microfinance was
Rs. 22,000 crore
• 75% are accounted for by SHG Linkage, 20% by large
MFIs and 5% by medium and small MFIs
• SHG Linkage reports over Rs. 3,500 crore savings, only
MFI Bank, KBS Bank reports about Rs. 40 crore savings
portfolio
• MFIs operate in 209 out of 331 districts of the country,
28% of the new clients are from Urban areas.
Source : Sa-dhan, Bharat Micro-finance Report, 2008