REGIONAL RURAL BANKS AND DEVELOPMENT OF WEAKER SECTIONS

Book excerpt: In India rural people such as small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural laborers, artisans and socially and economically backward castes and classes they have been exploited in the name of credit facility by informal sector. The rural credit market consists of both formal and informal financial institutions and agencies that meet the credit needs of the rural masses in India. The supply of total formal credit is inadequate and rural credit markets are imperfect and fragmented. Moreover, the distribution of formal sector credit has been unequal, particularly with respect to region and class, cast and gender in the country side. Regional Rural Banks were established under the provisions of an Ordinance promulgated on the 26th September 1975 and the RRB Act, 1975 with an objective to ensure sufficient institutional credit for agriculture and other rural sectors.This book is useful to policy makers and researchers in the field of Regional Rural Banks and Weaker Sections Development.