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Need insurers catering to niche sectors like NBFCs, MFIs: Rakesh Joshi

India has a huge protection gap of 83 per cent. Further, almost 50 per cent of the vehicles running on the road are uninsured

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Raksh Joshi, Member (finance & Investment), IRDAI (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)

4 min read Last Updated : Dec 23 2022 | 1:00 AM IST

India has a huge untapped population which doesn’t have facilities for financial aid and insurance, and it is perhaps plausible to look at the option of having niche players catering to smaller sectors akin to non-banks and microfinance institutions in lending, said Rakesh Joshi, member (Finance & Investment), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai).

Speaking at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, Joshi said, “Today, most of our insurance companies operate at a national level. There is arguably a case for having differentiated operations, which cater to niche sectors the same way we have non-banking financial companies (NBFC)

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