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Financial inclusion drive opens 6.1 million Jan Dhan accounts in 2.5 months

The Finance Ministry said its three-month financial inclusion drive has opened 6.1 million Jan Dhan accounts, 26 million social security enrolments and updated crores of inactive accounts

PSBs shut 1.5 mn inoperative Jan Dhan accounts in 1-time exercise in April

Launched in August 2014, PMJDY was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a financial inclusion programme to provide access to banking services to a vast unbanked population

The first decade of PMJDY: A catalyst for financial inclusion in India

The number of accounts alone doesn't tell the real story: 66.75% are in rural and semi-urban India, and 55.70% belong to women

Higher FDI cap won't affect PSBs' financial inclusion goals: UCO Bank CEO

We are conducting a saturation drive for inoperative PMJDY accounts, meeting customers one-on-one to encourage them to operate their accounts, says Ashwani Kumar

Govt asks banks to close inactive accounts opened under PM Jan-Dhan Yojana

The concern arises from the increasing misuse of some Jan Dhan accounts by fraudsters as "mule accounts" to carry out cyber fraud

DFS Secretary urges private banks to step up support for inclusion push

At a review meet, DFS Secretary M Nagaraju calls on private banks to deepen their role in financial inclusion and ready for the saturation campaign starting 1 July

MP, Karnataka, Maharashtra among states seeing higher women voter turnout

Women-centric schemes fuel 18 mn surge in female voter turnout

SBI launches nation-wide drive for activation of inoperative accounts

State Bank of India (SBI) on Saturday said it has launched a nation-wide drive to raise awareness about the importance of inoperative account activation. A savings or a current account is treated as inoperative if the customer has no transaction in the account for a period of over two years. Activation of these accounts requires Re-KYC. Necessity of regular transactions in the account and preventing categorization into in-operative was the key message, SBI said in a statement. SBI chairman C S Setty emphasised the need to drive Re-KYC exercise in letter and spirit, to maintain PMJDY accounts in active status and enabling customers to conduct transactions seamlessly. He urged upon Business Correspondents to harness the technology to bridge the gap and reach the last-mile customer, thereby enhancing customer experience.

Banking for growth: PMJDY has improved financial inclusion. What next?

With deposit and credit facilities broadly in place, the government should now focus on spreading financial and digital literacy

10 Years of Jan-Dhan Yojana: Key Details | PM Modi

The Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) has completed 10 years. Launched in 2014, PMJDY was created to ensure every unbanked adult in India had access to a basic bank account, with no minimum balan

Foundations laid by PMJDY strong, have even more work to do, says PM Modi

He further added that the life journeys of those who have benefited from this scheme (PMJDY) are very touching and inspiring

Will open 30 million Jan-Dhan accounts this FY, says FM Sitharaman

The average balance per account has increased from Rs 1,065 in March 2015 to Rs 4,352 as of August 16, 2024. Roughly 80 per cent of these accounts are currently active

All the RBI's men

As the Reserve Bank celebrates its 90th birthday, the concluding part of a two-column series offers a peek into the lives and works of its governors over the past three decades

'Balance batao', 'digital didi': Fintech transforming financial inclusion

From the government's coffers, Rs 5,000 for opening an account for a child born into a poor family will be yet another milestone for financial inclusion, after PMJDY

About 20% of 510 mn Jan Dhan accounts inoperative: MoS finance informs RS

About 20 per cent of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts in the country are inoperative, the government said on Tuesday. As on December 6, of the total 10.34 crore inoperative PMJDY accounts, 4.93 crore belong to women, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. As per data received from banks, of the approximately 51.11 crore PMJDY accounts, around 20 per cent accounts were inoperative as on December 6, he said. The percentage of inoperative PMJDY accounts is similar to the percentage of overall inoperative accounts in the banking sector, he said. The deposited balance in the inoperative PMJDY accounts is around Rs 12,779 crore, which is around 6.12 per cent of the total deposited balance in PMJDY accounts, he said. This balance continues to earn interest at par with that applicable to operative accounts and can be claimed and withdrawn by depositors at any point of time after the account becomes operative again, he ...

9 years on, Jan-Dhan helps govt seal leaks and purge bogus accounts

About 6.26 PMJDY account holders receives DBT

MGNREGS & PMJDY: States show positive correlation for women beneficiaries

Share of women in total bank deposits rises to over 20% in FY23

PMJDY account to touch 500-million mark; about 55% beneficiaries are women

As on July 19, the number of total account holders under the PMJDY has reached 495.6 million, of which 275.6 crore are women

Only 8.2% of 463 million Jan Dhan accounts are zero balance: RBI report

81.2% were operative as of August 2022, up from 76% in 2017

PMJDY accounts hit 462.5 mn in eight yrs, deposits reach Rs 1.73 trillion

However, there was a decline in operative accounts as a percentage of the total, from 85.6% in August 2021 to 81.2% in August 2022