More than two-third of the new to credit customers in India hailed from the rural and semi-urban areas in 2021, according to a credit information company. Women, farmers and youth lead the charge on the New To Credit (NTC) customer addition front, which is desirable from a financial inclusion perspective, Transunion Cibil said on Tuesday. In 2021, the total number of NTC customers stood at 35 million while the January-September 2022 period saw 31 million additions, it said in a report. NTC consumers are ones with no prior credit history on their credit bureau file who opened their first-ever, traditional credit product such as a consumer durable loan, personal loan, agricultural loan, two-wheeler, gold loan or home loan. More than a fourth of the NTC customers in the first nine months of 2022 started their credit journey by availing a consumer durable loan, followed by 16 per cent who took an agricultural loan and 13 per cent availed personal loans, it said. Among the NTC consumer
This is despite the prevalence of a much larger population in the country's villages and a greater number of vaccination centres in these areas, compared to urban
Overall demand from rural areas declined 0.2 per cent on a month-on-month basis in December while it was down 17 per cent in November, according to Bizom's data
Singh highlighted that over the last 8 years, PM Modi's welfare schemes reached the neediest without any vote bank consideration
The survey was based on three parameters namely, financial knowledge, attitude and behaviour. On a total score of 21, the average urban and rural scores were 11.7
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing the Lower House of Parliament on December 14 this year, claimed that the demand for work under MGNREGA is on the wane
Government departments have used it to build village land records, track rural roads, and manage water resources
The report revealed a digital divide based on employment status, where 95% of the salaried permanent workers have a phone whereas only 50% of the unemployed have a phone in 2021
Government's PLI schemes can help manufacturing and reduce import dependence in some sectors, say some experts
Scheme central to government's plans to create up to 10 mn public WiFi hotspots by Dec
The October work demand under the scheme, according to the MGNREGS website, is the lowest in a month so far in this financial year
The regulator last month had formed a 24-member committee, headed by Devasia, to develop an affordable, accessible and comprehensive cover - Bima Vistaar -- for rural population
Rural India saw subscriptions fall by 3.7 million. Urban barely offset that with a rise of 540,000
India may increase rural spending by nearly 50% to 2 trillion rupees ($24.51 billion) next fiscal year, as the country seeks to boost jobs
This is to shake off its image of a lagging government service, multiple officials added
But asks rural development ministry to identify and remove inefficiencies
Scope of their survival is diminishing. Even as the overall business of rural financial institutions has generally been looking up, they are struggling to scale up business volumes
The report said the decline in employment was mostly in rural India and mainly in non-agricultural rural India and the daily wage labourer segment was the most hit as it shrunk by nearly 15 million
Sales were down in September due to weak rural demand
The employment reality is grimmer than what the household survey data tell us. This is true for Chhattisgarh as much as it is for Uttar Pradesh. And, also for other states