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Committee on Medium-term Path on Financial Inclusion was an experts committee formed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15 July 2015 to create a five-year plan for financial inclusion in India. It was headed by Deepak Mohanty , executive director of RBI.
Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households (commonly known as the Nachiket Mor Committee) [1] was an expert committee formed by Raghuram Rajan on 23 September 2013, [2] after he was appointed as the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It was headed by Nachiket Mor.
Financial inclusion is the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services. [1] It refers to processes by which individuals and businesses can access appropriate, affordable, and timely financial products and services—which include banking , loan , equity , and insurance products.
Access to financial services is defined as the share of the adult population (population ages 15+) with an account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider. The data for the ranking taken from the Global Financial Inclusion Database, which was compiled by the World Bank. Available indicators are reported for ...
Women World Banking: In a bid to enhance financial inclusion, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and Women's World Banking entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote the Jan Dhan Plus program through Regional Rural Banks. This collaboration targets increased utilization and adoption of basic ...
To further the objective of financial inclusion, the RBI granted approval in 2016 to ten entities to set up small finance banks. Since then, all ten have received the necessary licenses. A small finance bank is a niche type of bank to cater to the needs of people who traditionally have not used scheduled banks.
This financial inclusion campaign was launched by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 28 August 2014. [2] He had announced this scheme on his first Independence Day speech on 15 August 2014. Run by Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, on the inauguration day, 1.5 crore (15 million) bank accounts were opened under this ...
2010: Received license from RBI to operate as a credit information company [4] 2011 : Launched India's first credit bureau services for microfinance industry (MFIs etc.) in March 2011 [ 16 ] 2012 : Won Silver Award at SKOCH Digital Inclusion 2012 for the company’s work towards digital financial inclusion [ 7 ] [ 21 ]