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Lok Sabha polls: BJP may bank on beneficiaries of electricity, sanitation schemes to defeat SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh
Sanjay • 6 years agoEven if the BJP can get a reasonable percentage of Yadav and Dalit votes, it will put up a respectable performance in politically-critical Uttar Pradesh.
Jan Dhan Yojana’s triumph shows financial inclusion gaining pace; scheme a launching pad for success of DBT, other products
Muralidharan • 6 years agoAllegations of large-scale misuse of Jan Dhan accounts by black money hoarders seeking to convert their illegitimate wealth in cash during demonetisation are yet to be proved.
Deposits in Jan Dhan accounts inch towards Rs 1 lakh crore mark; total stand at Rs 96,107 crore
• 6 years agoThe total balance in the Jan Dhan accounts, which has been steadily rising, was at Rs 97,665.66 crore as on 3 April, as per the latest government data
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Fp Staff • 6 years agoWhile many parties have accused KCR of working in tacit understanding with the BJP to defeat Congress, it will be impossible for Stalin or Mamata to be associated with a grouping that has BJP in it.
Women-centric reforms needed for financial inclusion; gender-neutral schemes don't work amid societal bars
Sohini Sengupta • 6 years agoFinancial inclusion is important because women specifically score disproportionately low on ordinary functions like savings and borrowings due to reasons such as gender violence, limited mobility, not being allowed to work, etc.
Jan Dhan accounts weren’t intrinsically misuse-prone; P Chidambaram’s rant ignores past indulgences
Muralidharan • 6 years agoIf four out of five Jan Dhan accounts are inactive and the bulk of them are for money laundering then how can the no-frills accounts opened under Chidambaram's UPA government smell of roses?
Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar: Why linking bank accounts is critical for battle against black money
Muralidharan • 6 years agoGovt makes flagship financial inclusion scheme 'Jan Dhan' open-ended with more incentives, says Arun Jaitley
• 7 years agoLaunched in August 2014, the first phase of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was focused on opening basic bank accounts and RuPay debit card with inbuilt accident insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh.
RBI says 99.3% of demonetised currency is back: What went wrong with the government's black money hunt
Muralidharan • 7 years agoRBI says 99.3 percent of about Rs 16 lakh crore in the form of the banned Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes have found their way back into the banking system
It’s no mystery why banks have little appeal to the urban poor: They serve no purpose
Rahul Satija • 7 years agoBanking system is incomprehensible and quite inaccessible for many of the urban poor. The most important service they need from banks is money- transfer