Project Synopsis
Rural Banking in India
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Table of contents
Title of the Project:
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Rural Banking in India
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Project Guide
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Introduction about the Banking:
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Introduction about Project and Topic:
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Project Aims and Objective:
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Analysis and Findings
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Suggestions and conclusions
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Title of the Project:
Rural Banking in India
Project Guide
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Introduction about the Banking:
India lives in its villages, and the founding fathers deemed it imperative to enable financial inclusion for the rural population. The
Regional Rural Bank (RRB) emerged from India¶s early aspirations for a stronger institutional arrangement to develop a savings culture in the rural eco-system, provide rural credit and agriculture finance, while enabling poverty elevation. The formation of the Narasimham
Committee in 1975, and eventually the passing of the RRB Act in
1976 were key milestones in this journey. Legislation mandated joint ownership of RRBs by the Central Government, State Government and a sponsor commercial bank, in the ratio of 50%: 35%: 15%, respectively. From a modest beginning of just 6 RRBs with 17 branches covering 12 districts in 1975, the numbers grew to 196 RRBs with 14,446 branches working in 518 districts across the country, in 2004. However, given the multiagency shareholding and entailed restrictions, several RRBs failed to sustain viable operations and others merged vertically or horizontally, resulting in the total number of RRBs stabilizing at 91, in
2007, with over 14,000 branches, spread across 585 of the 622 identified districts.
Thus, history has clearly established