Abstract

Cooperatives were the pioneers in the field of rural credit in India. The entire rural credit delivery was more or less a preserve of the cooperative credit institutions from 1904 to 1969, when the nationalization of Commercial Banks and the subsequent emergence of Regional Rural Banks in 1975 heralded the adoption of the Multi Agency Approach to rural lending. Even today, the cooperative credit structure has the largest outreach and delivers credit to the largest numbers of clients in the rural areas in comparison to other institutions, although the quantum of credit delivered is second to commercial banks.

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