India to digitally record tribal heritage to push social, economic inclusion

India to digitally record tribal heritage to push social, economic inclusion

The idea is to help tribals derive economic value through GI tagging and domestic and global market linkages.

Banking on Everyone: India’s Digital Leap Into Inclusion

In 2011, when the World Bank began tracking account ownership, less than half of Indian adults had one. Banking was a privilege of the urban middle class; for hundreds of millions, a “bank account” was an unfamiliar term, more fantasy than reality. Fourteen years later, the Reserve Bank of India’s latest Financial Inclusion Index stands at 67.0 — up 24.3 percent since 2021 — marking one of the most ambitious and rapid expansions of financial acc…