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7/29/2019 Report on Financial inclusion and financial literacy awareness programme conducted by JanMitram
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Progress Report on
Financial Inclusion Promotion programme
Conducted byJ anMitram
(J anuary 2013)
Under sponsorship of NABARDRegional office Raipur -CG
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Progress Report on Financial Inclusion Promotion programme Conducted by J anMitram
Kalyan Samiti under sponsorship of NABARD
Context:
Financial inclusion or inclusive financing is the delivery of financial services, at affordablecosts, to sections of disadvantaged and low income segments of society.
Unrestrained access to public goods and services is the sine-qua-non of an open and efficientsociety. It is argued that as banking services are in the nature of public good; the availability ofbanking and payment services to the entire population without discrimination is the primeobjective of this public policy. The term "financial inclusion" has gained importance since theearly 2000s, and is a result of findings about financial exclusion and its direct correlation topoverty.
FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN INDIA
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which became an official member institution ofthe Alliance for
Financial Inclusion in 2012, set up Khan Commission in 2004 to look into financial inclusion. The
recommendations of the commission were incorporated into the mid-term review of the policy
(200506). In the report RBI exhorted the banks with a view of achieving greater financial
inclusion to make available a basic "no-frills" banking account.
In India, financial inclusion first featured in 2005, when it was introduced by K C Chakraborthy,
the chairman of Indian Bank. Mangalam Village became the first village in India where all
households were provided banking facilities. Norms were relaxed for people intending to open
accounts with annual deposits of less than Rs. 50,000. General credit cards (GCCs) were issued
to the poor and the disadvantaged with a view to help them access easy credit. In January 2006,
the Reserve Bank permitted commercial banks to make use of the services of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs/SHGs), micro-finance institutions, and other civil society organizations asintermediaries for providing financial and
banking services. These intermediaries could
be used as business facilitators or business
correspondents by commercial banks.
Reserve Bank of Indias vision for 2020 is to
open nearly 600 million new customers'
accounts and service them through a variety of
channels by leveraging on IT. However,
illiteracy and the low income savings and lack
of bank branches in rural areas continue to bea roadblock to financial inclusion in many
states and there is inadequate legal and
financial structure.
In India, RBI has initiated several measures to
achieve greater financial inclusion,such as
facilitating no-frills accounts and GCCs for small deposits and credit.
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Some of these steps are:
Opening of no-frills accounts: Basic banking no-frills account is with nil or very low minimum
balance as well as charges that make such accounts accessible to vast sections of the
population. Banks have been advised to provide small overdrafts in such accounts.
Relaxation on know-your-customer (KYC) norms:KYC requirements for opening bankaccounts were relaxed for small accounts in August 2005, thereby simplifying procedures by
stipulating that introduction by an account holder who has been subjected to the full KYC drill
would suffice for opening such accounts.The banks were also permitted to take any evidence as
to the identity and address of the customer to their satisfaction. It has now been further relaxed
to include the letters issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India containing details of
name, address and Aadhaar number.
Engaging business correspondents (BCs):In January 2006, RBI permitted banks to engage
business facilitators (BFs) and BCs as intermediaries for providing financial and banking
services. The BC model allows banks to provide doorstep delivery of services, especially cash
in-cash out transactions, thus addressing the last-mile problem. The list of eligible individuals andentities that can be engaged as BCs is being widened from time to time. With effect from
September 2010, for-profit companies have also been allowed to be engaged as BCs. India map
of Financial Inclusion by MIX provides more insights on this [2].
Use of technology: Recognizing that technology has the potential to address the issues of
outreach and credit delivery in rural and remote areas in a viable
manner,banks have been advised to make effective use of
information and communications technology (ICT), to provide
doorstep banking services through the BC model where the
accounts can be operated by even illiterate customers by using
biometrics, thus ensuring the security of transactions and
enhancing confidence in the banking system.
Adoption of EBT: Banks have been advised to implement EBT
by leveraging ICT-based banking through BCs to transfer social
benefits electronically to the bank account of the beneficiary and
deliver government benefits to the doorstep of the beneficiary, thus reducing dependence on
cash and lowering transaction costs.
GCC:With a view to helping the poor and the disadvantaged with access to easy credit, banks
have been asked to consider introduction of a general purpose credit card facility up to `25,000
at their rural and semi-urban branches. The objective of the scheme is to provide hassle-free
credit to banks customers based on the assessment of cash flow without insistence on security,purpose or end use of the credit. This is in the nature of revolving credit entitling the holder to
withdraw up to the limit sanctioned.
Simplified branch authorization: To address the issue of uneven spread of bank branches, in
December 2009, domestic scheduled commercial banks were permitted to freely open branches
in tier III to tier VI centres with a population of less than 50,000 under general permission, subject
to reporting. In the north-eastern states and Sikkim, domestic scheduled commercial banks can
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now open branches in rural, semi-urban and urban centres without the need to take permission
from RBI in each case, subject to reporting.
Opening of branches in unbanked rural centres: To further step up the opening of branches
in rural areas so as to improve banking penetration and financial inclusion rapidly, the need for
the opening of more bricks and mortar branches, besides the use of BCs, was felt. Accordingly,
banks have been mandated in the April monetary policy statement to allocate at least 25% of the
total number of branches to be opened during a year to unbanked rural centers.
Controversy
Financial inclusion in India is often closely connected to the aggressive microcredit policies that
were introduced without the appropriate regulations oversight or consumer education policies.
The result was consumers becoming quickly over-indebted to the point of committing suicide,
lending, institutions saw repayment rates collapse after politicians in one of the country's largest
states called on borrowers to stop paying back their loans, threatening the existence of the entire
4 billion a year Indian microcredit industry. This crisis has often been compared to the mortgage
lending crisis in the US.
The challenge for those working in the financial inclusion field has been to separate micro-credit
as only one aspect of the larger financial inclusion efforts and use the Indian crisis as an
example of the importance of having the appropriate regulatory and educational policy
framework in place
Financial inclusion awareness programme and financial literacy
Financial Literacy is considered an important adjunct for promoting financial inclusion, consumerprotection and ultimately financial stability. Financial inclusion and financial literacy need to gohand in hand to enable the common man to understand the need and benefits of the productsand services offered by formal financial institutions.
In India, the need for financial literacy is even greater considering the low levels of literacy andthe large section of the population that are still out of the formal financial set-up.common manfinds it very difficult to make informed decisions. Further, in view of higher percentage ofhousehold savings in our country, financial literacy can play a significant role in the efficientallocation of household savings and the ability of individuals to meet their financial goals.
The outreach programmes by the Reserve Bank has helped in spreading awareness andimproving financial literacy in recent years. Financial literacy is being promoted by variousstakeholders as an important demand side input towards achieving the goal of financial inclusion.In order to ensure effective coordination of the efforts made by all the financial regulators andother stakeholders, a Technical Group on Financial Inclusion and Financial Literacy has been
constituted under the aegis of Financial Stability and Development Council, havingrepresentations from the Reserve Bank, SEBI, PFRDA, IRDA, Government of India, StateGovernments and Central Education Board etc. The group meets at quarterly interval with thefirst meeting held in November 2011, followed by two more meetings in February and May 2012.The group is in dialogue with NCERT, CBSE and state education boards for inclusion of financialliteracy in school curriculum.
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Financial literacy Programme by JanMitram
With such pretext JanMitram Was entrusted to make an understanding among communities
regarding financial inclusion. This was made at two levels
A) General awareness, discussion and facilitation camps. The intervention was made in acluster of villages where rural people including farmers and SHGs participated.
B) School competitions for student through quiz, in a manner that enhances students
curiosity, knowledge and understating for financial inclusion.
Detail minuets of these programmes are given as below.
A. Village level programmes
1. Nawapara Camp : 22th Jan 2013
The awareness programme on financial inclusion was organized in Nawapara Panchayat.with the auspicious presence of Mr. Vinay Kumar Kurre, Branch Managar RRB ,Mr.
Jagrit Ram Rathia,Sarapanch and Mrs. Sarita Kurre BDC of Tenda Panchayat. The
SHG members VPC of Lacal Wadi programme, VDCs, Individual framers and villagers of
Tenda ,Nawapara ,Borounakunda ,Danginara Bastipali, Chotegumda ,and saradhap were
present.
In the first Session the SHG expert Mr. Sailesh Aditya from Janmitram address the
financial progress of India and participation of rural poor in these processes. He
addresses how all the people should link with the bank for their family growth and female
share in this part.
In the second session of the programme Mr.
Pradeep Jaiswal, Expert FI Janmitarm shared
why, what and how people will link with financial
inclusion in the context of Tenda and other
panchayat dealing with Nawapara Branch.
In the 3rd and important session Mr. Vinay
Kumar Kurre , Branch Manager CGB
,Nawapara try to explain the benefit that people
can get from Bank and they should free frommiddle man who are exploiting the rural poor ,
He expressed that bank are taking priority to the rural costumer who are not getting
opportunity to link with Bank . Bank is ready to ensure that all the rural farmer have an
account with bank and transact the small amount with bank so that in future they get
benefited by the sate govt also through project.
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The programme was ended with the speech of BDC and sarpanch who ensure that this
type of programme will encourage the farmers and they will convince each family to have
link with Bankers.
Villages covered Totalparticipation
SHG VDC VPC Others
Barounakunda , Tenda , Nawapara,Danginara, sardhap, Bastipali ,choteGumda
76 43 13 4 16
2. Kudumkela Camp :
The 2nd Programme on financial inclusion was organized in Community Bhawan
Kudumkela village on 23th Jan 2013. Mr. A.K. Devangan, Sailesh Aditya and Mr. B
Jaiswal hold the programme .
The 1st Session was delivered by expert Mr.
Sailesh Aditya from Janmitram address the
financial progress of India and participation of
rural poor in this process. He addresses how
all the people should link with the bank for
their family growth and female share in this
part. In the second session of the programme
Mr. B .Jaiswal Expert Janmitarm shared why,
what and how people will link with financial
inclusion in the context of Linked panchayat.
In the 2ndrd session Mr. A.K. Devangan,
Branch Manager CGB ,Kudumkela try to explain the benefit that people can get from
Bank and they should free from middle man who are exploiting the rural poor , He
expressed that bank are taking priority to the rural costumer who are not getting
opportunity to link with Bank . Bank isready to ensure that all the rural farmer
have an account with bank and transact
the small amount with bank so that in
future they get benefited by the state
government .
The programme was ended with thanks
to the SHG Members, farmers and
member attended the programme,
Mr.Jaiswal thanked to the BM, for his
valuable effort in this regard .He
requested the representative to cooperate the bankers to success the campaign of
financial inclusion .
Villages covered Totalparticipation
SHGmember
VDC Others
Nawadih ,Dumerpali,Puri,kosamghat
83 61 9 13
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B. School Level Quiz Competition :-1. Quiz Competition in Higher Secondary School Raikera :
The School level quiz competition on financial inclusion was organized in Govt
Higher Secondary school , Raikera on 17th Jan 2013 with the presence of school
Teachers of Raikera school and staffs of Janmitram
.The programme was inaugurated by chief guest ofthe programme Mr. Ramkumar Patel , Lecturer of
the school
In the first Session Mr. Pradeep dandsena from
Janmitram gave introduction on the financial inclusion
and how all the student and parents should link with
the bank for their sustainability. After this the selected 10 student of the school divided
into 5 groups. The total no of 50 question asked in the quiz completion .Mrs. Alma
Soren and Smt. Kiran Choubey, lecturer Govt Higher Secondary school, Raikera were
the judge of the programme.
In the last Phase the prize was distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd awardees in front of
the school students. All the teachers and students
inspired from the programme and get knowledge from
the programme. They expressed that such type of
programme encourage and crate awareness among
the parents whose pupils are studying in the school.
They demand that such type of programme should
organized in the continuous interval.
2. Quiz Competition in Govt Higher Secondary School, Kaya :
The School level quiz competition on financial inclusion was organized in Govt
Higher Secondary school , Kaya on 17th Jan 2013 with the presence of school
Teachers of Kaya school and staffs of Janmitram .The programme was inaugurated
by Mr. S. Kerketta ,Principal of Govt Higher Secondary school , Kaya in gharghoda
block .
In the first Session Mr. Sailesh Aditya
from Janmitram gave introduction on
the financial inclusion and how all the
student and parents should link with thebank for their sustainability. After this
the selected 10 student of the school
divided into 5 groups. The total no of 50
question asked in the quiz completion
.Mr.Monoj Banjare lecturer Govt Higher
Secondary school, Kaya and Mr.Praveen Gupta Janmitram were the judge of the
programme.
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In the last Phase the prize was distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd awardees in front of
the school students. All the teachers and students inspired from the programme and
get knowledge from the programme. They expressed that such type of programme
encourage and crate awareness among the parents whose pupils are studying in the
school.3. Quiz Competition in Govt Higher Secondary School, Teram :
The School level quiz competition on financial inclusion was organized in GovtHigher Secondary school , Teram on 16 th Jan 2013 with the presence of schoolTeachers of Teram school and staffs of Janmitram .The programme was inauguratedby Mr. L.P Chouhan ,Principal of Govt Higher Secondary school ,
In the first Session Mr. Sailesh Aditya from Janmitram gave introduction on the
financial inclusion and how all the student and parents should link with the bank for
their sustainability. After this the selected 10 student of the school divided into 5
groups. The total no of 50 questionasked in the quiz completion
.Mr.L.P.Chouhan Govt Higher Secondary
school, Teram and Mr.Praveen Gupta
Janmitram were the judge of the
programme.
In the last Phase the prize was
distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
awardees in front of the school students.
All the teachers and students inspired
from the programme and get knowledgefrom the programme. They expressed that such type of programme encourage and
crate awareness among the parents whose pupils are studying in the school.
4. Quiz Competition in Saint Ans high School, Gharghoda :The School level quiz competition on financial inclusion was organized in Saint Ans
high School, Gharghoda on 18 th Jan 2013 with the presence of school Teachers
of school and staffs of Janmitram.The programme was inaugurated by Mr. Rajkisore
,Lecturer of the school ,
In the first Session Mr. Sailesh Aditya from Janmitram gave introduction on the
financial inclusion and how all the student and parents should link with the bank for
their sustainability. After this the selected 10 student of the school divided into 5
groups. The total no of 50 questions asked in the quiz completion .Miss. Monica, and
Mr. Praveen Gupta Janmitram was the judge of the programme.
In the last Phase the prize was distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd awardees in front of
the school students. All the teachers and students inspired from the programme and
get knowledge from the programme. They expressed that such type of programme
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encourage and crate awareness among the parents whose pupils are studying in the
school.
5. Quiz Competition in Govt high school , Bahirkeda :The School level quiz competition on financial inclusion was organized in Govt high
school , Bahirkeda on 18 th Jan 2013 with the presence of school Teachers of
school and staffs of Janmitram.The programme was inaugurated by Mr. R.S .Patel,Principal of the school ,
In the first Session Mr. B.Jaiswal from
Janmitram gave introduction on the financial
inclusion and how all the student and parents
should link with the bank for their sustainability.
After this the selected 10 student of the school
divided into 5 groups. The total no of 50 question
asked in the quiz competition.. R.S .Patel and
Mr.Praveen Gupta, Janmitram were the judge of
the programme.
In the last Phase the prize was distributed to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd awardees in front of
the school students. All the teachers and students inspired from the programme and
get knowledge from the programme. They expressed that such type of programme
encourage and crate awareness among the parents whose pupils are studying in the
school.
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