CURRENT AFFAIRS

2020

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned how much fund for Punjab to ensure continuous credit flow to farmers, through state cooperative banks?
A
Rs 1, 500 crores
B
Rs 2, 500 crores
C
Rs 3, 500 crores
D
Rs 2, 000 crores
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -NABARD provides long-term (LT) loans to State Governments to contribute to the share capital of cooperative credit institutions. This reimbursement-based support is intended to encourage larger lending programmes by these cooperatives to meet the agricultural credit requirements.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Union Budget for FY 2022-23 has made a budgetary provision of Rs 350 crore (total budget is of Rs 2, 516 crore for five years) for computerisation of 63 thousand PACS.

Detailed explanation-3: -NABARD is a Development Bank with a mandate for providing and regulating credit for the development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other allied economic activities in rural areas to promote prosperity of rural areas.

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