Commercial banks finance for rural development

dc.contributor.author	Singh, Gurdev
dc.contributor.author	Asokan, S. R.
dc.date.accessioned	2010-03-18T11:23:53Z
dc.date.available	2010-03-18T11:23:53Z
dc.date.copyright	1987-12
dc.date.issued	2010-03-18T11:23:53Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11718/1338
dc.description.abstract	The participation of commercial banks in rural credit was started with the nationalization of imperial bank of India into State Bank of India in 1955. Initially it was to assist cooperative sector in term lending. Subsequently the facility was extended for direct credit to progressive farmers and tenant cultivators for purchase of inputs including labor, buying machinery and equipment, construction of farm structures and development of land e.g. levelling, boring tube-wells, etc. and the finance allied activities such as fruit cultivation, poultry farming, dairy farming etc.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP;1987/721
dc.subject	Rural development	en
dc.subject	Commercial banks	en
dc.title	Commercial banks finance for rural development	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en