Improve CDR of banks in Assam: Gogoi to RBI

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Press Trust Of India Kolkata/ Guwahati
Last Updated : Feb 08 2013 | 12:12 AM IST
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked RBI Governor D Subbarao to consider a system of incentives and disincentives for banks in the state to bring their credit deposit ratio at par with the national average.

The credit-deposit ratio, or CDR, has steadily risen to 46.6 per cent as on September 2012 but it is still far lower than the national average of 76.5 per cent, Gogoi said at a meeting with the RBI Governor here last evening.

The Chief Minister said the availability of institutional credit per hectare of gross cropped area in the state is only Rs 2,626, while the all-India figure is much higher at Rs 15,379. Gogoi asked Subbarao to initiate suitable measures urgently to improve the institutional credit in the agriculture sector.

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First Published: Feb 08 2013 | 12:12 AM IST

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