Monday, April 21, 2014

The challenge: a bank account for everyone

.........Financial inclusion is certainly not a new dispensation that Indian policymakers are craving. The nationalisation of banks in 1969 and the thrust on branch building that followed were attempts at including the financially excluded. Even in the previous round of bank licensing (in 2003-04) new players were directed to open branches in rural and semi-urban geographies.........

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