The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy for FY25 today, October 9. The RBI’s rate-setting committee (MPC) kept the benchmark repo rate unchanged at 6.5% for the tenth straight meeting. However, RBI maintains the status quo on policy rates, but changes its stance to Neutral from ‘withdrawal of accommodation’; GDP…
Credit cards offer several benefits to merchants and cardholders. Benefits to merchants: Credit card transaction processing directly impacts a business’s ability to provide convenient and secure payment options for customers, which can affect sales, customer satisfaction, and overall growth. Enhanced customer experience By offering a simple, convenient credit card payment experience, businesses can meet the…
National Insurance Co. now offers multiple top-coverage medical insurance policies for bank retirees under IBA medical policy for retirees. Now top-up is available for Rs.2 lakh, 3 lakh,4 lakh, and 5 lakh. The details are as follows; Top- up premium for retiree and spouse Top-up premium for retiree and spouse For Rs.2 lac 27101 including…
A Credit card holder is the customer, or consumer, who is using the card for payment or cash withdrawal. Credit card holders can also add authorized users to their account. The authorized user can make purchases, but the primary holder is still responsible for the debt. Credit card issuer: Financial institutions, usually banks and NBFCs,…
Women Self Help Group (SHG) under DAY-NRLM is a group voluntarily formed by 10-15 women. The special SHG can be formed with 5 persons in the difficult area, remote area, or groups with disabled persons, consisting minimum of 5 persons. The other persons with disabilities, the elders, and trans-genders can only form SHG with both…
Commercial Banks are directly financing Self Help Groups (SHGs) or Financing SHGs, which are organized by NGOs etc. directly (Direct Linkage). Banks also Finance NGOs/MFIs for on-lending to SHGs organized by them (Indirect Linkage). Role of NGOs in financing SHG: Non-government organizations (NGOs) are doing a remarkable job in the area of socioeconomic, cultural, and…
The Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) is a Central government-sponsored scheme that helps educated unemployed people start self-employment ventures through business routes and industry services. The scheme has been in operation since October 2, 1993. Features of the PMRY scheme: Eligibility Criteria: 1. 8TH CLASS PASS 2. Age group between 18-40 years as…
The Scheme of Liberation and Rehabilitation of Scavengers (SLRS) is a government program launched on March 22, 1992. The scheme aims to help people who manually remove night soil and filth transition to cleaner, more dignified work. The scheme envisages primarily people of scheduled caste communities and helps those who manually remove night soil and…
The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) was launched on 01.12.1997 after subsuming the earlier three schemes for urban poverty alleviation, namely Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY), Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP), and Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP). The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) was renamed the National Urban Livelihoods…
Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) was introduced by the Ministry of Rural Development to assist poor families living below the poverty line in rural areas in taking up self-employment. The scheme was renamed as National Rural Livelihood Mission in 2011. In 2016 the program was renamed “Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)”.…