Monday, November 11, 2013

India needs greater variety in lending institutions

.............At the same time, banks have failed to shoulder the responsibility of meeting the credit requirements of India's teeming, diverse, dynamic and under-funded unorganised sector. The sector meets 78% of its credit needs from NBFCs, moneylenders and other informal sources. And at an exorbitant cost. The way out is for the RBI to see a segment of NBFCs as the last-mile, low-cost intermediaries who would funnel the banks' own priority sector funds to the small and medium sector. This class of NBFCs should have the ability........

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