India, March 10 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Government has taken several measures to increase institutional credit flow to the agriculture sector, including to the underserved agricultural segments. These measures inter-alia includes the following:
Apart from the above NABARD as part of RBI's Lead Bank Scheme, prepares the Potential Linked Credit Plan (PLP) of each district every year for estimation of credit potential under Priority Sector which are consolidated at the state level. Based on the state level aggregation of PLPs, past trends, government priorities etc., Government in consultation with NABARD set the Ground Level Credit Target to agriculture. Further, NABARD provides financial support to Financial In...