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Financial Inclusion: FI-Index and Banking Access
Financial inclusion in India is read on two gauges: the Reserve Bank's composite Financial Inclusion Index, 70.0 for March 2026, and physical reach, with 99.92 percent of inhabited villages within 5 km of a banking outlet. It is in the news because the Department of Financial Services is running a nationwide saturation campaign from 21 October to 31 December 2026, with bank camps in 2.70 lakh Gram Panchayats and urban local bodies.
Last updated 20 October 20266 min read
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Adds the 21 October-31 December 2026 saturation campaign in 2.70 lakh panchayats and urban bodies plus Jan Suraksha cover amounts; IPPB detail moves to its own card.
- FI-Index
- Financial Inclusion Index
- RBI
- financial inclusion
- financial deepening
- Usage sub-index
- banking access
- PMJDY
- Jan Dhan
- saturation campaign
- Jan Suraksha
- PMJJBY
- PMSBY
- banking outlet
- DFS
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