All India rural credit survey : report of the committee of direction

volume 2 : the general report

The Report of the Committee of Direction of the All-India Rural Credit Survey is presented in three volumes which in themselves may be regarded as separate, but complementary, reports. The first is the Survey Report; the second, the General Report; and the third, the Technical Report. This is Volume II or the General Report. It contains the Committee's recommendations and an analysis of the data on which they are based. The data are drawn principally of course from the Survey, but in part from other sources as well. Among such sources are reports of different committees, official documents of various kinds, and numerous non-official publications, which contain material relevant to the formulation of policy; there has been especial need to turn to these for facts and observations bearing on aspects not covered by the specific investigations of the Survey. Of the data of the Survey as a whole, no attempt at summary is made in this volume; for the presentation and interpretation of these in their entirety, the reader must turn to the Survey Report (Volume I) to which, as we have stated, this volume is complementary.