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Pvt Lenders Must Help Lift Financial Inclusion

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July 01, 2025

The Union finance ministry on Monday exhorted private sector banks to increase their participation in financial inclusion schemes and serve the marginalized sections of the society by fulfilling their banking needs.

- Subhash Narayan

The call came during a review meeting with senior officials of private sector banks in New Delhi. Indian Banks' Association chief executive Atul Kumar Goel and senior officers of the department of financial services also attended the meeting chaired by department secretary M. Nagaraju. The meeting reviewed the performance of private banks on variou

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