Professional Documents
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in Rural Marketing
Group 4, Section D
Decision Questions
CHALLENGE: How to scale up the rural banking
operation?
Rural India: The figure is 70% with 87% having no access to formal
credit
Sources of credit from informal money lenders increased (17.5%26.8%) and surprisingly declined in the case of commercial banks
(35.2%-26.3%) in the period 1991-2002
$82 billion credit is still informal and comes from agricultural lending.
36% of rural credit is from informal sources
Farmers
Personal
Consumption/Farming
Traders/Dealer
s
Investment in Business
Large
Corporates
Non-Branch
Non-Branch
DCPB
DCPB
Vikas
Vikas
Sahyogis
Sahyogis
Mandi
Mandi Branch
Branch
MFI
MFI
Crop
Crop Cluster
Cluster Branch
Branch
Business
Business
Correspondents
Correspondents
Rationale:
Vikas Sahyogi