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Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index)
The Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) is the Reserve Bank of India's yearly read on how widely and deeply people across the country use formal finance; for the year ending March 2026 it rose to 70.0, from 67.0 a year earlier.
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Introduces the RBI's Financial Inclusion Index, which climbed to 70.0 for March 2026 from 67.0 a year earlier — a three-point, Usage-led gain the RBI reads as financial inclusion deepening rather than merely widening.
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