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Micro Finance Companies - The Task Force on Supportive Policy and Regulatory Framework for Microfinance set up by NABARD in 1999 provided various recommendations. Accordingly, it was decided to exempt NBFCs which are engaged in micro financing activities, licensed under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, and which do not accept public ...
NABARD's role in rural development in India is phenomenal. [30] The credit flow to agriculture activities sanctioned by NABARD reached Rs 1,57,480 crore in 2005–2006. [citation needed] Through assistance of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, NABARD set up the Rural Innovation Fund.
Many self-help groups, especially in India, under NABARD's 'SHG Bank Linkage' program, borrow from banks once they have accumulated a base of their own capital. This model has attracted attention as a possible way of delivering micro-finance services to poor populations that have been difficult to reach directly through banks or other ...
The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme is a credit scheme introduced in August 1998 by Indian public sector banks to issue kisan credit card to the farmers of India.This model scheme was prepared by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) on the recommendations of the R. V. Gupta Committee [1] to provide advances for agricultural needs.
[1] [2] Joint Liability Group is a group of 4-10 people of the same village or locality of homogenous nature and of the same socioeconomic background who mutually come together to form a group for the purpose of availing loan from a bank without any collateral.
Currently, the SFMC provides funds for on-lending and capacity building support to 44 MFIs with over 1.3 million members. [5] The majority of MFIs operated under a self-help group model (SHG). 90 percent of its total members are concentrated in the southern states, with 78 percent of them operating within a rural environment and a 95 percent membership rate among women. [6]
Aloysius Prakash Fernandez is an Indian economist, social worker and the Chairman of the NABARD Financial Services Limited (NABFINS), [1] a National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) subsidiary, formed with the participation of several banks in India. [2]
SIDBI also coordinates the functions of institutions engaged in similar activities. It was established in 1990, [2] through an Act of Parliament. [3] SIDBI is one of the five All India Financial Institutions regulated and supervised by the Reserve Bank of India. The other four are Exim Bank Of India, NABARD, NABFID and NHB. They play a ...