About the Book: Institutional Finance and Rural Development
Since the down of planning era in India, one of the primaryobjectives of the
government has been to streamline and strengthenits rural economy and to uplift
standards of living of the weakersections. For the fulfillment of this
objective, apart from otheragencies, institutional finance is expected to play a
dynamic role.Infact, a well known economist S.S.M. Desai realized this way
backwhen he stated that the thrust of rural credit policy had been onthe
provision of timely and adequate flow of credit, especially tomeet the
requirement of small and marginal farmers and the weakersections.