Nabard: National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Is An Apex

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NABARD

 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is an apex


development financial institution in India, headquartered at Mumbai with regional
offices all over India.[4] The Bank has been entrusted with "matters concerning policy,
planning and operations in the field of credit for agricultureand other economic
activities in rural areas in India". NABARD is active in developing financial
inclusion policy.

NABARD logo

Predecessor Agricultural Refinance and Development

Corporation

Formation July 12, 1982; 36 years ago[1]

Type Development finance institution

Legal status State-owned enterprise, Government of India

Purpose Development assistance, poverty reduction

Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[2]

Chairman
HOSTPRY
NABARD was established on the recommendations of
B.Sivaraman Committee, (by Act 61, 1981 of Parliament) on 12 July 1982 to
implement the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act 1981. It
replaced the Agricultural Credit Department (ACD) and Rural Planning and Credit
Cell (RPCC) of Reserve Bank of India, and Agricultural Refinance and Development
Corporation (ARDC). It is one of the premier agencies providing developmental credit
in rural areas. NABARD is India's specialised bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development in India.

ROLE:
NABARD has been instrumental in grounding rural, social innovations and social
enterprises in the rural hinterlands. It has in the process partnered with about 4000
partner organisations in grounding many of the interventions be it, SHG-Bank
Linkage programme, tree-based tribal communities’ livelihoods initiative, watershed
approach in soil and water conservation, increasing crop productivity initiatives
through lead crop initiative or dissemination of information flow to agrarian
communities through Farmer clubs. Despite all this, it pays huge taxes too, to the
exchequer – figuring in the top 50 tax payers consistently. NABARD virtually ploughs
back all the profits for development spending, in their unending search for solutions
and answers. Thus the organisation had developed a huge amount of trust capital in
its 3 decades of work with rural communities.

External links
 Official website

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