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Financial inclusion index – RBI

August 20 , 2021 1196 days 1059 0
  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the formation of a composite Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) to capture the extent of financial inclusion across the country.
  • The FI-Index for the period ended March 2021 stood at 53.9 compared with 43.4 for the period ended March 2017.

About the index

  • The annual FI-Index will be published in July every year.
  • The index incorporates details of banking, investments, insurance, postal as well as the pension sector in consultation with the government and respective sectoral regulators.
  • The index captures information on various aspects of financial inclusion in a single value ranging between 0 and 100.
  • Here 0 represents complete financial exclusion.
  • 100 indicates full financial inclusion.
  • It has been constructed without any ‘base year’.

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