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RBI's financial-inclusion index rose to 67 in FY25
Business Standard
|July 23, 2025
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) financial-inclusion index, which captures the extent of usage of financial services across the country, increased to 67 in the financial year ended March 2025 (FY25), compared to 64.2 in the corresponding period in the previous year.
The central bank on Tuesday said that growth was witnessed across all sub-indices—access, usage, and quality.
"Improvement in financial inclusion index (FI-Index) in FY25 is contributed by usage and quality dimensions, reflecting deepening of financial inclusion, and sustained financial literacy initiatives," RBI said in its statement.
This story is from the July 23, 2025 edition of Business Standard.
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