Regional rural banks and rural development

This book makes an in-depth enquiry into the nature, working and performance of the institutional credit agencies in general and the Regional Rural Banks in particular in respect of developing the rural areas and meeting the credit needs of the weaker sections of the population living in the countryside.

While a consensus has gradually emerged on the need to establish an integrated rural credit system at the primary level and provide a single contact point for the farmers to meet his multi-purpose and multi-term credit require ment particularly in the context of the integ rated rural development approach, the need is to study the position of the credit availability, role of different institutions and the impact of the credit given particularly by the R.R.Bs, who intend to be space-bound and specifically devoted to inculcate local participation parti cularly by the weaker sections of the society and distribute the benefits among the poor sections with justice.

This outstanding book will be of great use to scholars and students of economics and commerce and to planners, policy-makers and bankers.