Posts Tagged ‘Finance Minister’

Microfinance Focus, Sep 2, 2010: Addressing a gathering at the Global Insurance Summit organized by ASSOCHAM in Mumbai on Wednesday, Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee stressed on the need of popularizing Microinsurance for achieving financial inclusion in the country. Identifying financial inclusion as one of the biggest challenges for the Indian insurance market, he said, “One of the important challenges before the insurance industry today is ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, July 21, 2010: Addressing a meeting with the Chief Ministers of South Zone States and Administrators of Union Territories (UTs) & Chairmen and Executive Directors of Banks in Hyderabad yesterday, Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has emphasized the need for strengthening of movement of Self-help Groups for financial inclusion so that small and marginal farmers could get access to higher doses of credit ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, June 15, 2010: Microfinance News Synopsis brings a compilation of industry headlines broadcasted by other news media from across the world. FM asks banks to lend more to Eastern, NE states: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday asked banks to step up lending activities and open more branches in the Eastern and Northeastern regions."At today's meeting, we have discussed how to improve credit-deposit ratio. ... Full story