Thursday, December 27, 2012

Digital financial inclusion in India – Current status and the way forward

......In view of the widely prevalent economic disparities, financial inclusion becomes imperative to  usher-in inclusive growth. The agenda of inclusive growth is reflected in the policies and regulations that the policymaking and regulating institutions, like Government of India and RBI have been working upon in last ten years. Measures  have been taken to include the financially  neglected rural areas by relaxing the KYC norms  and the use of banking correspondents aggressively. RBI has been proactive  in including the cashdriven, under banked, semi-urban and urban population for their digital financial inclusion. They’ve done so by increasing the number of ATMs by 25% each year for last couple of years, reducing their transaction costs for electronic payments by having banks reduce the MDR for debit cards and NPCI -driven IMPS and Rupay card thus, enabling low cost digital transactions...........

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