The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said 25o million families could be brought under financial inclusion by the Jan Dhan Yojana alone.
Inaugurating the Bandhan Bank, the first commercial bank from Eastern India to get RBI clearance since independence, Jaitley said 175 million bank accounts have been opened in Jan Dhan Yojana scheme so far.
Speaking on the Social Security Schemes, he added that expansion of these Schemes will help the banking segment grow.
The MUDRA agency, he mentioned, has so far been able to finance the unfunded section of the society and it will continue to play the same role.
