In India rural people such as small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural laborers, artisans and socially and economically backward castes and classes they have been exploited in the name of credit facility by informal sector. The rural credit market consists of both formal and informal financial institutions and agencies that meet the credit needs of the rural masses in India. The supply of total formal credit is inadequate and rural credit markets are imperfect and fragmented. Moreover, the distribution of formal sector credit has been unequal, particularly with respect to region and class, cast and gender in the country side. Regional Rural Banks were established under the provisions of an Ordinance promulgated on the 26th September 1975 and the RRB Act, 1975 with an objective to ensure sufficient institutional credit for agriculture and other rural sectors.This book is useful to policy makers and researchers in the field of Regional Rural Banks and Weaker Sections Development.

Contributed articles presented in a seminar, held during 14-15 Sept. 2007, at St. Joseph's College, Jhakama.

Institutional finance is an important pre-requisite for rural development. Institutional credit entered the rural areas a long ago the form of co-operatives and later in the form of commercial banks after their nationalisation in 1969. But these institutions failed to penetrate the rural areas as the benefits of the institutional credit continued to be cornered by the influential and economically and politically powerful sections of the society.

Papers presented at a seminar held at Itanagar during 8-9 February 2005.

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Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experience in the northeastern region in India in relation to the processes of globalisation and liberalisation of the economy. Bringing together researchers and scholars, from both within and outside the region, the volume offers a comprehensive and updated analysis of governance and development issues in relation to the northeastern economy. With its multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters cover a variety of sectors and concerns such as land, agriculture, industry, infrastructure, finance, human development, human security, trade and policy. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics, public policy, governance and development, geopolitics, geography, development studies, politics and sociology of development and area studies as well as observers and policymakers interested in the Northeast.