PM SVANidhi App Launched to Provide Credit to Street-Vendors

The Secretary, Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Durga Shankar Mishra, has launched the PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) mobile application in New Delhi. Under the scheme, the street vendors are going to be provided with credit ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020

Nirvik: New Export Credit Insurance Scheme

The Ministry of Commerce & Industries through the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) has launched a new Export Credit Insurance Scheme (ECIS) called NIRVIK to enhance loan availability and ease the lending process. What is Export Credit Insurance? Export credit ..

Improving credit flow to potential borrowers

In the modern-day of increasing globalization, global economic trends are also being picked up in India. While at one time, Indians were hesitant to borrow money for heads apart from the house, car or education which were comparatively long term ..

National Rural Bank

The Central Government is mulling to set up a National Rural Bank to ease the agricultural woes in India. What is a National Rural bank? The National Rural is an envisaged attempt of the policymakers to create a large bank ..

Did India Over-Estimate its Growth Rate?

In a research paper India s GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian has claimed that India s economy grew at a much slower pace between 2011-12 and 2016-17 (at about 4.5%) than the ..

Sunil Mehta recommends changes in existing Inter-Creditor Agreement (ICA)

The Sashakt Committee, headed by PNB non-executive chairman Sunil Mehta, has recommended changes in existing Inter-Creditor Agreement (ICA) to incorporate revised voting threshold and other changes for decision making stipulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It will enable ..

NITI Aayog calls for new Regulations for Banks

Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog’s Chief Executive Officer has said that the government and the Reserve Bank of India will have to bring new set of regulations to make certain that borrowers repay their debt in time. He has also stressed ..

RBI starts process to set up PCR for capturing borrowers’ details

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated steps to set up a wide-based digital Public Credit Registry (PCR) to capture details of all borrowers, including wilful defaulters and also the pending legal suits in order to check financial delinquencies. ..

RBI to set up Public Credit Registry (PCR) to check loan defaults

In a bid to check loan defaults, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has considered the recommendations of YM Deosthalee-headed High Level Task Force and will set up a Public Credit Registry (PCR) in a modular and phased manner. The ..

Committee on Public Credit Registry (PCR)

The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a 10-member ‘High Level Task Force on Phublic Credit Registry (PCR) for India’, which will, among other things, suggest a roadmap for developing a transparent, comprehensive and near-real-time PCR for India. The committee ..