Monday, July 21, 2014

India's youngest bank Bandhan to empower women, rural folk

......Ghosh said RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan wants the new bank (Bandhan) to penetrate poverty-hit rural areas to promote lending and saving among farmers, small businesses and others whom traditional banks have been reluctant to serve. "Bandhan is a third generation bank. Instead of ATM (Automated Teller Machine), our 275,000 human teller machines have been in constant touch with the rural people, specially women." Ghosh said that he had all the time given emphasis on the "practicability of the business, whatever may be the volume of trade.".....

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