....Banks lend to MFIs at about 10 per cent instead of directly giving loans to the SHGs. The MFIs in turn lend at high rates ranging from 24 to 60 per cent to the poor. In addition to banks, the micro-finance sector gets support from apex agencies such as Rashtriya Mahila Kosh and Nabard in several other ways. Also, as the Malegam Committee (a subcommittee of the Central Board of Directors of the RBI) found, banks were holding securitised paper issued by non-banking financial companies (dealing with microfinance) worth Rs 4,200 crore. Banks and financial institutions had also invested in the equities of such companies. The Committee found that over three-fourths of finance obtained by .....
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