Financial Inclusion is the pursuit of making financial services, such as access to payments and remittance facilities, savings, loans and advances, insurance services etc. – accessible at affordable costs to all individuals and businesses, irrespective of net worth and size, respectively. Financial inclusion strives to address and suggest solutions to the constraints that exclude people from […]
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Priority Sector Lending Norms
Priority sector Lending targets : TARGETS/SUB-TARGETS The scheduled commercial banks are expected to enlarge credit to the priority sector and ensure that priority sector advances constitute 40 percent of the net bank credit and that a substantial portion is directed to the weaker sections. The targets and sub-targets set under priority sector lending for domestic […]
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises-Definition
Definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises-2020 After 14 years since the MSME Development Act came into existence in 2006, a revision in MSME definition was announced in the Atmanirbhar Bharat package in May, 2020. The Central Government, after obtaining the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, notified revised criteria for classifying the enterprises as micro, small and medium enterprises, […]