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Animesh JainAIR 63· 2020

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How does the United Lending Interface (ULI) address the longstanding challenges of agricultural credit in India?

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Unified Lending Interface is a application recently launched to provide a common platform to banks to share the customer data and facilitate loans. ULI will address longstanding challenge of agri credit by : 1) Prove credit worthiness of farmers through data sharing among banks & past credit record. 2) Tackle the problem of documentation by bringing all records on one platform. 3) Facilitate putting agriculture assets as a collateral in taking loans of land, farm machinery. 4) Ease of credit to small and marginal farmers. @ 85% of total

5Tackle the challenge of agri NPA by ensuring due diligence among banks. 6) Integrate with other scheme like Fasal Bima Yojana, Kisan credit card to avail loans. 7) Boost financial inclusion of farmers by extension of banking service to their. 8) Reserve agencies and discretion in lending decision through transparency. 9) Push digital banking/M-banking thereby tackling challenge of poor banking infrastructure. Institutional ULI lending is key to serve farmers from undebtedness, boost single section and improve agriculture productivity.
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Institutional ULI lending is key to serve farmers from undebtedness, boost single section and improve agriculture productivity.

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Topper

Animesh Jain

AIR 632020

Subject & Paper

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Topic

Agriculture and Food Security

Agriculture finance

Agricultural credit systems

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