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Question
State the advantage of a credit card over currency notes.
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Solution
- Credit cards minimize the need to carry significant amounts of cash and enable for convenient purchases anywhere, including online.
- Unlike currency notes, which can be permanently lost, credit cards provide protection against theft or loss and allow you to block the card.
- Credit cards provide you access to a line of credit, allowing you to make purchases even if you don't have enough money at the time.
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In this context, the SHG-Bank Linkage programme, formalised by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in 1995, synthesizes 'formal financial systems' (in terms of a formal institution providing credit) with the 'informal sector' (comprising of rural poor with no formal credit history), has emerged as a preferred vehicle for providing financial services to the hitherto unbanked poor.
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Access to adequate and timely credit at affordable rates is critical for the rural poor to alleviate high cost debt and invest in livelihood opportunities. Despite the Government of India's best efforts, financial inclusion of the rural poor has been beset with multiple challenges. Lack of adequate banking infrastructure and human resources in rural areas, unplanned expansion leading to unviable bank branches and low levels of financial literacy amongst the rural populace have been some of the key challenges.
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