Priority sector lending to MFIs—need for adequate supervision

Ramesh S Arunachalam

If the concerned RBI departments could not monitor five of the top 13 NBFC-MFIs that were supposed systemically (very) important, then, how can they be expected to set up supervisory mechanisms for several hundred MFIs as per the proposed Microfinance bill?

If equity was in some ways responsible for the burgeoning growth of Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs), the (huge) amount of (priority sector) debt leveraged by these 13 NBFC-MFIs (in top 14 MFIs) and other NBFC MFIs is another issue here.

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