In India financial inclusion has been given top priority in recent years in the philosophies and plans of both financial development and economic growth. Financial Inclusion is the delivery of banking services at an affordable cost to the vast section of the disadvantaged and low-income group....

Financial inclusion is an agenda of planning for development. India accepted this as a way of achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and incorporated it in the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). Now with NITI Aayog and Sustainable Development Goals...

“If the poverty of the poor be caused not by laws, but by our institutions, great is our sin”, wrote Charles Darwin. Bank as an institution, especially a rural bank in India has always been considered as a ‘Messiah' in the national agenda of poverty eradication. This national assignment...

In recent years financial inclusion has been given top priority as financial development and economic growth are interdependent. Women constitute almost half of country's population and their work participation is also increasing and diversifying and impacting her family, neighbourhood and the...