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8. Singh Preeti, (2004) Investment Management : Security Analysis
and Portfolio Management, Himalaya Publishing House New Delhi
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CHAPTER – 2
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT AND OTHER
DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
CHAPTER – 1
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Outreach Efforts to Women and Disadvantaged Groups
2.3 National Small Savings Fund
2.4 National Savings Institute
2.5 Activities of National Savings Institute
2.6 Grievance/ Complaint
2.7 NSI and International Cooperation
2.8 Department of Posts
2.9 Role of State Government
2.10 Role of other Financial Institutions
2.11 Transformation of Savings into Capital Assets
2.12 References
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2.1 Introduction
The foundation of the first savings institution in India was laid in the year 1833. The
Presidency bank in Calcutta was established to provide for investment of the savings
of all classes – British and native. In October, 1943 the Government of India set up a
“National Savings Central Bureau” in Shimla with a small number of staff. The basic
objective of the bureau was:-
i) To promote the habit of thrift;
ii) To counteract the inflationary trends in the economy caused
by the Second World War and
iii) To collect funds to finance the war.
After independence in 1947, it was felt that more of an impetus has
to be given to the savings movement. With the encouraging result
achieved in the steady mobilisation of resources for the country, the
Government of India reorganised the Savings Movements in May, 1948 in
order to sustain and develop the public interest in the movement and the
National Savings Organisation (NSO) was created. The objectives of the
national savings movement in this age of development and planning in
India are mainly:-
To promote and motivate the people to cultivate the habit of thrift;
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To tap the unauthorized monetary resources of the people for
utilizing them in various developmental welfare activities of t he
nation and
To render to the depositors of small savings, the security and
profitability of the savings and to render Income Tax relief where
applicable.
Small savings were considered a priority concern of the
Government. The Constitution of India, adopted in 1949, lists the „Post
Office Savings Bank‟ in its Seventh Schedule, Item No. 39. Utilizing the
Government Savings Certificates Act of 1959 and the Public Provident
Fund Act of 1968, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) framed numerous small
savings plans under these acts.
The primary objective of the small savings programme has been to
promote the habit of thrift and savings among citizens of the country. The
emphasis, as the words “small savings” suggest, is to bring the small
depositor into the fold of the savings movement. The Post Office Savings
Bank has been the main vehicle for these plans across the length and
breadth of India since its establishment 123 years ago. Post Office Savings
Banks were opened in 1882. Some of the small savings schemes i. e. Public
Provident Fund and Senior Citizen‟s Savings Scheme are also operated
through designated branches of nationalised banks and 4 private banks i.e.
ICICI, IDBI, HDFC and UTI Bank.
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The population of India has surpassed one billion. Assuming an
average family size of five, there are some 200 million families in India.
As of 31 March 2005, there were 115 million accounts under small
savings, and it is estimated that more than 50 million households are small
savings depositors.
The NSO under the Ministry of Finance has been entrusted with the
work of promotion and publicity of Small Savings products or schemes.
The organization also provides training and support to Agents, State
Government Officials, and Postal Authorities. There were different
Savings products or schemes introduced by Government to cater to the
needs of different segments of small savers in the society. These schemes
are operated through the network of over 1,55,000 post offices and more
than 8,000 branches of the public sector and private banks.
2.2 Outreach Efforts to Women and Disadvantaged Groups
In addition to savings products, the Government of India has also devised
extension agencies, which cater to the needs of subscribers all over th e
country. There are three agency systems which authorize agents to canvass
for small savings on a commission basis. One of these agency plans, the
„Mahila Pradhan Kshetriya Bachat Yojana‟ (Women‟s Savings Agency
Plan). The Mahila Pradhan Kshetriya Bachat Yojana plan uses women
agents for canvassing house to house to receive savings from women at
their doorsteps for deposit into the Post Office Recurring Deposit Plan
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Women are considered thrifty and are known to systematically put
away some of the household budget for a rainy day. In 1972 the
Government introduced the Post Office Recurring Plan targeted
specifically to women to help them save small, fixed sums of money each
month.
Out of countrywide network of more than 1,55,000 post offices,
1,30,847 are located in the rural areas. Each post o ffice has the facility to
maintain small savings plans. As the infrastructure of post offices exists in
every nook and corner of the country, the public has easy access to them.
Small savings plans are uniformly operated in rural and urban areas. The
minimum entry subscription is also very low in contrast to instruments in
the securities market and encourages even low-income depositors to save.
(Source: NSI)
The small savings movement serves the twin objectives of
inculcating the habit of thrift among the people and also of raising
resources for national development. Small savings are investments which
help the nation in defence and development. It is not a contribution or a
donation or a subscription or a gift. It is just like putting money in a bank
and getting the interest on it. Small savings is one of the schemes for
raising money by borrowing internally to finance the Five -Year Plans of
the country. The small savings movement was started in India in 1945.
Systematic mobilization of resources from the people through
investment in small savings schemes is being pursued by the National
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Savings Organisation since its inception in 1948. The net collections in
the small savings schemes (gross collections minus withdrawals by
subscribers) have risen from `100 crore in 1948-49 to `96,788 crore (Net)
in 2004-2005. 100 per cent of net collections mobilized in small savings
schemes in a State/UT are transferred to the concerned State/UT
Government as investment in special securities issued by that
Government.
2.3 National Small Savings Fund
All deposits under small savings schemes are credited to the „National
Small Savings Fund‟ (NSSF), established in the Public Account of India
with effect from 1.4.1999. All withdrawals by the depositors are made out
of the accumulations in this Fund. The balance in the Fund is invested in
special Government securities as per norms decided from time to time by
the Central Government. The liability of outstanding balances under
various small savings schemes at the close of 31s t March, 1999 was borne
by the Central Government by treating the same as investment of NSSF in
special Central Government securities. The net small savings collections
(deposits minus withdrawals by the subscribers) from 1999 -2000 to 2001-
02 were shared by Central and State Governments through investment in
special securities issued as per their respective share. However, with
effect from 1st April, 2002, the entire net collections in a State / Union
Territory (with legislature) are being invested in speci al securities issued
by the concerned State / Union Territory Government. The sums received
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in NSSF on redemption of special securities are being reinvested in
special Central Government securities. The debt servicing of Central/State
Government securities is an income of the Fund while the cost of the
interest paid to the subscribers and cost of management of small savings
schemes are expenditure of the Fund.
2.4 National Savings Institute (NSI)
National Savings Institute was set up in 1948 in the name o f National
Savings Organisation and working under, the Ministry of Finance,
Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India. It is entrusted
with the task of mobilisation of small savings. The Institute discharges its
role through national level publicity of small savings with feed back to the
Ministry for policy intervention and redressal of customer‟s queries and
grievances.
The Institute is headed by a Director and has its Headquarter at
Nagpur with ten different Regional Centres at: -
i) Chandigarh Regional Centres which cover the states of
Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and UT of
Chandigarh.
ii) Lucknow Regional Centres which cover two state i.e. Uttar
Pradesh, Uttaranchal.
iii) Guwahati Regional Centre cover eight sister states of North
East India Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim.
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iv) Kolkata Regional Centre which cover the states of Bihar,
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, A&N Island.
v) Bangalore Regional Centre covers two states o f Andhra
Pradesh & Karnataka.
vi) Chennai Regional Centre which cover the states of Tamil
Nadu, Kerala, UTs of Pondicherry, Lakshadweep.
vii) Mumbai Regional Centre spread in the states of Maharashtra
except Nagpur region, Goa, UTs of Daman & Diu, Dad ra
Nagar Haveli.
viii) Jaipur Regional Centre which cover the states of Rajasthan &
Gujarat.
ix) Nagpur Regional Centre which cover the states of Madhya
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Nagpur Region.
x) Delhi.
2.4.1 Mandate of National Savings Institute:
The following are the man mandate of NSI: -
- Collection and collation of data.
- Providing policy inputs to the Ministry of Finance on
structuring of different financial products/schemes.
- Designing, structuring and launching of new financial
products/instruments.
- Printing and supply of savings instruments through India
Security Press to Central Stamp Depots.
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- Training of Officers of NSI, State Governments, Banks, Post
Offices and half a million agents.
- Detection & prevention of frauds commit ted by agents,
investors and other agencies.
- Liaison and Coordination with State Governments, Banks,
Department of Posts and Extension Agencies.
- International Cooperation in the field of small savings.
2.4.2 Vision of NSI
National Savings Institute is a dynamic, vibrant, high tech, result -oriented
organisation and a centre of excellence in the area of small savings.
Following are few objectives of National Savings Institute in the country:
* To inculcate the habit of thrift and saving among the people
specially people in the rural and semi urban areas.
* To improve the access of small investors to secure avenues of
saving through provision of various savings instruments.
* To facilitate provision of efficient services to the investors in
Small Savings Schemes through coordination with the
different agencies involved in the implementation of these
schemes.
2.4.3 Progress of Small Savings
Systematic mobilization of resources from the people through investment
in small savings schemes is being pursued by the National Savings
Institute. The net collections in the small savings schemes (gross
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collections minus withdrawals by subscribers) have risen from `100 crore
in 1948-49 to `2,15,568 crore in 2009-10.
2.4.4 Organisational Chart of N.S.I.
Fig. 2.1
Sources : www.nsiindia.gov.in
2.4.5 National Savings Products:
2.1. ORGANISATIONAL CHART OF N.S.I
Director/ Addl. Director (1)
Jt. Director (2)
Regional Centres
Regional Director
Dy. Director (11)
Asst. Director (19)
Dy. Director (5)
Asst. Director
Regional Director
UDC (1)
Statistical
Investigator
Administrative
Data Entry
Hindi SPA (1)
Sr. Steno (1)
Steno (1)
HQ
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It has been the endeavour of the NSI for the last five decades to provide
savings instruments which are suitable to the needs of various strata for
the society. There are eight National Small Savings Schemes through
which the public may invest their surplus money. They are:
(i) Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP).
(ii) Post Office Monthly Income Scheme (POMIS).
(iii) 15-Year Public Provident Fund Account (PPF).
(iv) Post Office Time Deposits (POTD).
(v) 5-Year Recurring Deposit Account (RD).
(vi) Post Office Savings Account (POSA).
(vii) National Savings Certificate (VIII Issue) (NSC).
(viii) Senior Citizens Savings Schemes, 2004 (SCSS).
All these eight National Small Saving Schemes were operating
under the direct supervision of Department of Posts and (iii) and (viii)
were also operating at Nationalised Banks.
2.4.6 Extension Agencies
The work of popularization of Small Savings Schemes and securing
investments from the public is carried out through extension agencies. The
Standardised Agency System (SAS), Public Provident Fund Agency (PPF),
Mahila Pradhan Kshetriya Bachat Yojna (MPKBY) agents provide services
at the door steps of the investors. The Pay Roll Savings Groups in
Government, Public Sector and Private establishments help the employees
to save regularly every month a specified amount which is deducted from
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the salary of the employees at source, for investment in selected small
savings schemes.
In order to have effective interface with the investors, agents and
organisations involved in mobilization of savings, NSI has framed Do‟s
and Don‟ts for SAS/MPKBY/PPF agents and investors.
2.4.7 Investors Grievances Redressal
With a view to improving the accountability to the Small Savings
Investors, agents and other concerned a single window mechanism for
redressal of investors‟ grievances and queries has been set up. To redress
the investor‟s grievances, a coordination committee has been set up at the
state level, which is chaired by the Regional Director, in charge of
respective NSI Regional Centre with a representative from State
Government, Department of Post, Banks and Agents as Members of the
said committee.
2.4.8 Right to Information
NSI is an Institute under Union Ministry of Finance (Department of
Economic Affairs), with headquarters at Nagpur (Maharashtra). One
Regional Director, NSI, Nagpur has been appointed as Central Public
Information / Nodal Officer at Headquarters, for the purpose of “Right to
Information Act 2005” and all Regional Directors of all the 10 Regional
Centres of National Savings Institute have been appointed as Public
Information Officers in respect of their Regional Centres.
2.5 Activities of National Savings Institute
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Following are the few select activities undertaken by the National
Savings Institute in the country.
2.5.1 Training & Development
NSI at Nagpur, caters to the training needs of the officers from NSI,
State Small Savings Directorates/Banks/Post Offices and Extension
Agencies. It also conducts various International Training Programmes for
Executives of members‟ countries of the World Banks Institute.
Besides training imparted in National Savings Institute
Headquarters, all the Regional Directors also impart training to the
extension agencies at the regional level. The objective of such training is
to improve the skill and knowledge of the persons involved in operating
the small savings schemes of Government. NSI does not charge any
training fees.
2.5.2 Distribution of Small Savings Products
Small Savings Schemes are being operated through a large network
of distribution agencies, i.e. 1,55,000 Post Office spread all over the
country and also through more than 8,000 branches of the Nationalised
Banks. Recently 4 banks i.e., IDBI, ICICI, HDFC & UTI Bank have been
authorised to operate Public Provident Fund and Senior Citizen‟s Savings
Scheme in the country.
NSI is responsible to make ensuring availability of savings
certificates, forms and stationery in the Post Offices/Banks throughout the
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country. To facilitate proper distribution, NSI has created a dynamic
Inventory Control Management System, which is operating at Nagpur with
linkage to all the Regional Centres as well as Postal Stores Depots an d
Circle Stamp Deposits.
2.5.3 Communication Policy
Different communication channels used by NSI are:
Advertising - Print media, films, leaflets, audio-visual material,
video taps, etc.
Sales Promotion - Contest, games, etc.
Fares & Exhibitions - Exhibits.
Pubic Relation - Press kits, seminars, Sanchaya magazine, etc.
2.5.4 Market Research
NSI in its new mandate has given importance to Market Research to
conduct study of specific problems and opportunities related to Small
Savings. NSI is responsible for marketing various small savings products
of the Ministry of Finance through different distribution channels i.e.,
Banks and Post Offices. The basic objective of Market Research is to
create new products and restructure the old products, to meet t he
requirements of different segments of investors and also to find different
product - preference by different segments of the investors.
Some of the areas were identified and Market Research was
conducted on under mentioned topics: -
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1. Small Savings in Karnataka - distribution of collections
between urban and rural areas.
2. Impact of Income Tax in the transaction of Small Savings
Products among small investors.
3. Investment pattern among different income groups.
4. PPF and NSC VIII - Distribution of account and collections
between tax and non-tax payers.
5. Product preference of investors from different age groups.
6. The role of agents in marketing of small savings products.
7. Investor‟s preference for different financial distribution
channels.
To conduct the Market Research, NSI used the services rendered by
NSSO as well as the students from the different Business Schools located
in Regional Centres. During Market Research various techniques were
adopted for defining problems and research objectives, developing the
research plans, collecting various information, analysing the information
and presenting the findings of research to the Ministry of Finance,
Government of India, for taking policy decisions.
2.6 Grievance/Complaint
A website of the National Savings Institute under Government of
India, Ministry of Finance has also been launched to facilitate interface
with the public through wider dissemination of information on small
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savings and on-line registration and settlement of investor‟s g rievances.
The website address is http://nsiindia.gov.in. This website is a single
window mechanism for on line redressal of grievances/complaints or
queries on the NSI website and tract its status using a unique auto
generated code number.
2.7 NSI and International Cooperation
NSI is an active member of the World Savings Banks Institute
(WSBI), Brussels, since 1970. India has been elected as President of the
World Savings Banks Institute - Asia Pacific Regional Group in 2003. NSI
had conducted training program for Senior Executives of Mongolian
Savings Bank in the field of Micro Finance and NSI conducted training
program for Vietnam Postal Savings Bank Company (VPSBC) in the field
of mobilization of resources in April 2006.
2.7.1. World Savings Bank Institute (WSBI)
World Savings Banks institute is an international apex body
representing savings banks, savings bank organisations and socially bank
organisations and socially committed retail banks from all over the world.
The World Savings Banks Institute was earlier known as International
Savings Banks Institute with Headquarter at Geneva, Switzerland. After
its re-location from Geneva, to Brussels in 1994, the WSBI operates
together with the European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) under a common
structure, the WSBI - ESBG Joint Office. The WSBI has 108 members
from 91 countries (32 members from Africa, 17 from Asia Pacific, 37 from
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Europe and 22 from America) with assets of 6400 billion and deposits of
4600 billion, loans of 390 billion, 1,100 savings banks, 2, 00,000 branches
and 2.4 million employees.
The basic objective of WSBI is to influence various savings banks
and financial institutions, which are the members of WSBI so that they are
perceived both domestically and internationally as integral to the fin ancial
community and operate as proficient, efficient banking institutions,
actively cooperating with other WSBI members in business opportunities.
There are 5 Regional Groups of WSBI: The African Regional
Group, The Asia-Pacific Regional Group, The Europe Regional Group,
The Latin America Regional Group, Cross -regional Groups.
2.8 Department of Posts
The Department of Posts runs the savings bank as an agent of the
Ministry of Finance. Most of the National Savings Schemes are operated
and serviced by the network of Post Offices spread throughout the
Country. The Post Office savings Bank organization has been playing an
effective role for promotion of the movement in the rural areas through
extra departmental branch post masters of the village post office who are
granted incentive commission for increasing collection in their post
offices.
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India has the largest postal network in the world with over
1,54,979 post offices (as on 31.03.2010) of which 1,39,182 (89.81%)
are in the rural areas. At the time of independence, there were 23,344
post offices, which were primarily in urban areas. Thus, the network
has registered a seven-fold growth since independence with the focus
primarily on the rural areas. On an average, a post office se rves an
area of 21.21 sq.km and a population of 7,176 people. Of which 5,682
in rural and 20,346 in urban areas. On an average 7,176 people served
by Post Office 5,682 in Rural and 20,346 in Urban Areas.
Source: India Post (RTI MANUAL-1)
2.8.1 Post Office Savings Bank (POSB)
Figure:2.2
India Post- The Last Mile Reach (as on 31.3.2010)
Urban Post 15,757 (10.10%)
Departmental Post Office
25,563
Rural Post 1,39,182 (89.81%)
Branch Post Offices(in
Rural Areas) 1,29,416
2.06 lakh Departmental
Employees
2.69 lakh Grammen Dak
Sowaks (in Rural Areas)
Post Office 1,54,979
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Post Office in India provides certain financial services. Post Office
Savings Bank was open in 1882. The constitution of India adopted in
1949, list the “Post Office Savings Banks” in its Seventh Schedule, Item
No. 39. The Post Office, Savings Banks have been the main vehicle for
various small savings schemes across the length and breadth of the
country since its establishment 129 years ago. The Post Office Savings
Banks Scheme is an agency function performed by the Department of
Posts on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The Post
Office Savings Bank constitutes the main stay of the Financial Services
provided by the Department of Posts. The POSB is the oldest and largest
banking institution in the country. There are number of small savings
schemes provided by the Post Office Savings Bank and these included
Savings Account Schemes, Recurring Deposit Schemes, Time Deposit
Schemes, Monthly Income Schemes, Public Provident Fund Schemes,
Kisan Vikas Patra, National Savings Certificates and Senior Citizens‟
Savings Scheme. The Department of Posts is paid agency
charges/remunerations from NSSF on per account/per certificate basis for
deposit accounts and various categories of savings certificates.
The total number of accounts with Post Office has increased from
14.23 crore in 2003-04 to 24.10 crore in 2009-10. The outstanding balance
of Post Office Savings Bank accounts in 2009-10 was `5,83,789 crore.
India Post has already computerised its savings bank operations in 11,000
post offices.
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2.8.2 Objectives of Post Office Savings Bank
In the beginning the object of the Post Office Savings Bank was to
encourage the habit of thrift among the common man but this concept has
undergone a radical change during the last three decades. From the
restrictive objective of providing a facility to the public to deposit their
small savings, the Post Office Savings Bank has become a medium to
mobilizing large resources running into hundreds of crore every year for
plan projects. As a result of the change in the role, the expectations of the
performance of the POSB have gone up very much both in the minds of
those concerned with small savings and the general public. It has also
been established that approximately 30 per cent of the total collections on
small savings in the country are drawn from the rural population. It shows
how well and deeply the POSB has penetrated the farthest and the isolated
villages of India. The POSB is now a major instrument available to the
Government for mopping up savings both in rural and urban areas.
2.8.3 Postal Finance Mart:
Postal Finance Mart is one of the new initiatives in provision of Financial
Services of Department of Posts. Postal Finance Mart (PFM) offer all the
financial products and services under one roof “One stop shop for
Financial Services” in a fully computerised office supported by
technology, at par with reputed banking institutions. During 10th Five
Year Plan, a total of 313 Postal Finance Marts have been set up across the
country. A target for setting up of 500 Postal Finance Marts has been
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fixed for the 11th
Five Year Plan of the country, out of which 122 have
already been set up.
2.8.4 Core Banking Solution (CBS) for Post Office Small Savings
Scheme Customers
Anywhere, anytime and any branch banking i.e., Core Banking Solutions
(CBS) is included in the XIth Five Year Plan with a financial outlay of
`106 crore for development of CBS Software, Customer Relations
Management, Training Project Management Unit, Centralised Bank Office,
etc. which support Post Office Savings Bank and Savings Certificates
business with improved operational efficiency with delivery channels like
ATM, internet, phone and mobile banking services to Small Savings
Scheme customers.
2.9 Role of State Government
Small Savings are one of the biggest resources in India that are mobilised
and converted into profitable investments that benefit both investor and
the government. The whole process is a combination of national and state -
level organisations around the country. Small Savings are collected
through the Post Office savings Bank - this is an agency function
performed by the Directorate of Posts on behalf of the Ministry of
Finance, Government of India.
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Promotion of business is mainly the concern of the National
Savings Institute (NSI), which is under the Union Government. To achieve
its objective, the organisation works in close coordination with the
respective state governments, the Directorate of Posts and other
organisations. The broad procedures include establishing institutional
arrangements for canvassing and mopping up savings. The measures
consent of developing agency systems, strengthening a cadre of agents,
using existing union and state government organisations, and enlisting
cooperation of non-official and voluntary organisations.
National Savings collections become available for development to
the Union and State Governments. Net collections in a year become
available as loans to the respective state governments. Many state
governments have set up their own small savings organisations with Small
Savings directorates at state Head Quarters and offices at lower
formations. There are also state-level advisory boards and city, district
and block savings committees.
2.10 Role of Other Financial Institutions:
Many nationalised banks are also operating schemes of National Savings
like Public Provident Fund and Senior Citizen Savings Schemes on
incentive basis and large numbers of depositors are covered both by the
post office and banks in these schemes.
Earlier Government of India paid remuneration to banks for
managing PPF and SCSS but now there is only our channel of payment of
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remuneration to banks for handling transactions under PPF and SCSS.
Reserve Bank of India pays agency commission to banks on tran sactions
relating to PPF and SCSS at the following rates:
a) Receipts - `45/- per transaction
b) Payments - 9 paisa per `100 turnover.
Only designated branches of banks have been authorised to handle
PPF and SCSS, 2004. They are: - State Bank of India, State Bank of
Hyderabad, . State Bank of Indore, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State
Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Saurashtra, State Bank of Travancore, State
Bank of Mysore, Allahabad Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Bank of
Maharashtra, Canara Bank, Central Bank of India, Corporation Bank,
Dena Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Punjab National Bank,
Syndicate Bank, UCO Bank, Union Bank of India, United Bank of India,
Vijaya Bank and ICICI Bank Ltd.
2.11 Transformation of Savings into Capital Assets
Savings are to be transformed into capital assets through investment.
Generally savings are done by one group of people, viz., the individuals
and institutional savers while investments are done by another group of
people, viz., the businessmen, industrialists and the Government. Two
important factors on which investment depends are
(i) The marginal efficiency of capital i.e., the expected
profitability of new capital assets, and
(ii) the prevailing rate of interest.
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Capital formation is the key factor in economic development and it
again depends on savings of the people. According to Ragnar Nurkse, the
essence of capital formation is “the diversion of a part of the society‟s
currently available resources to the purpose of increasing the stock of
capital goods so as to make possible an expansion of consumable output in
the future”.*1 Capital formation again depends primarily on savings. There
can be no capital formation if the entire income of the community is spent
on current consumption and nothing is saved.
The process of capital formation passes through three different
stages, viz., -
(i) Creation of savings by security a surplus of income over
consumption expenditure.
(ii) Mobilisation and canalisation of the savings, and
(ii) Transformation of the mobilised savings into real capital
assets.
2.11.1 Creation of Savings
Capital grows out of savings. The volume of savings against
depends on two factors viz.,
(i) ability to save and
(ii) will to save.
Ability to save depends on number of factors such as
(a) the size of the money income,
(b) regularity or otherwise of the income flow,
(c) security of life and property,
(d) degree of organisation of the capital market,
(e) size of family‟s expenditure, etc.
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Will to save depends on a number of factors, some of which are
subjective, while others are objective.
The subjective conditions are
(a) family affection,
(b) a desire for higher standard of living,
(c) provision for unforeseen contingencies in the future,
(d) love of social distinction, etc.
The objective factors or conditions are
(a) security of life and property,
(b) existence of opportunities for gainful investment,
(c) rate of interest,
(d) existence of convenient institutional facilities for investment.
2.11.2 Mobilisation of Savings
Savings may be done voluntarily by private individuals and corporations
or compulsorily by the Government through taxation, deferred payment,
deficit, financing, etc. Mobilisation of savings can be done in two ways,
viz.
a) by a growth - oriented fiscal policy and
b) by spreading investment ideas among the people. Fiscal policy may
include what Musgrave calls, “the loss offset effort” to increase the
tempo of production investment. Other measures in this connection
include.
c) budgetary surplus,
d) economy in government expenditure,
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e) essential imports, efficient management of public sector
enterprises, etc.
2.11.3. Capital Formation
Capital is one of the important factors which governs the quality and the
composition of output in a country. If there are increasing resources of
capital in a country, it results in technological discoveries, raises
productivity of labour, increases the rate of economic development and
provides higher standard of living for the masses.
In case, there is deficiency of capital assets such as machinery
equipment tools, dams, road, railways, bridges, etc., the country then
remains trapped in the vicious circle of poverty. Capital accumulation/
formation, thus, is at the very core of economic development.
Capital formation is the process of buildings up the capital stock of
a country through investing in productive plants and equipment‟s. Capital
formation, in other words, involves the increasing of capital assets by
efficient utilisation of the available and human resources of the country. 2
2.11.4 Importance of Capital Formation in Economic Development
The vicious circle of poverty in underdeveloped countries can be broken
down only through adequate capital formation. Capital formation leads to
increase in the size of national output, income and employment and
thereby help in solving the problems of inflation and adverse balance of
payments.
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The main objective of economic development is to build up capital
equipment on a sufficient scale to increase productivity in agriculture,
industry, mining, transport, etc. As pointed out by Arthur Lewis “the
central problem in the theory of economic development is the process of
raising domestic savings and investment from 4-5 per cent to 12-15 per
cent of national income. As Lewis point out, “No nation is so poor that it
could not save 12 per cent of its national income if it want to; poverty has
never prevented nations from launching upon wars or from wasting their
substance in other ways”.
A precondition of economic development is the existence of a group
of people who are generally interested in economic development, who
have the will to save, who possesses the required knowledge and skill to
initiate changes and who are prepared to work for some material gains.
Given the fulfilment of such other conditions, economic development
depends on increasing the rate of capital formation.
Capital formation removes market imperfections, makes economic
development possible even with growing population, breaks the vicious
circle of poverty, raises the level of social welfare, help in making the
country self-reliant and induces the burden of foreign debts. It enables
proper exploitation of the natural resources and raising the level of
economic progress. Incentives for private saving can be provided in the
form of bonuses, gifts, lottery prizes, issuing savings certificates at high
rates of interest, small savings drive, tax exemptions on purchase of
government bonds etc.
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The different sources of domestic capital formation in India area :-
(i) private savings,
(ii) saving of financial institutions,
(iii) mobilisation of gold hoardings,
(iv) corporate profits,
(v) monetary and fiscal measures including taxation, public
borrowings and deficit financing and
(vi) utilisation of disguised unemployment.
A major share of the private savings comes from the individuals
households. It has clearly shown in the below given table from the
Economy Survey of Government of India from 200-01 to 2009-10. All the
study period the gross domestic savings of household against the GDP in
term of percentages is above 20 per cent and more .
TABLE -2.1
GROSS DOMESTIC SAVINGS AS PERCENTAGE OF GDP
Year Public Corporate Household
2000 – 2001 - 1.8 4.1 21.2
2001 – 2002 - 2.0 3.6 22.0
2002 – 2003 - 0.7 4.1 23.1
2003 – 2004 1.1 4.4 24.4
2004 – 2005 2.2 6.6 23.0
2005 – 2006 2.6 7.5 24.2
2006 – 2007 3.2 7.8 23.8
2007 – 2008 5.0 9.4 22.5
2008 – 2009 0.5 7.9 23.8
2009 – 2010 2.1 8.1 23.5
Source : Compiled from Economic Survey 2005-06, 2007-08 and 2010-11.
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As the above table shows, the largest share of the gross domestic
savings comes from the household sector i.e. 23.5 per cent while that of
the public is 2.1 per cent is 2009-10. It shows a major failure on the part
of the public sector in the mobilisation of domestic savings.
2.11 References
1. Economic Survey 2005-06, 2007-08 and 2010-11, Government of
India.
2. Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Annual Report, 2007-08 Postal
News. No.1/2011
3. Ruddar Datta, KPM. Sundharam, 1998, Indian Economy, S. Chand
& Company Ltd., New Delhi Page 300.
4. S.K. Misra and V.K. Puri, 1989, Development and Planning Theory
and Practice, Himalaya Publishing House. Page 393 & 398.
5. Sukhdeva (2008) M.L CAB CALLING- 2008 “Informal Saving of the Poor :
Prospects for financial Inclusion.” Jan-March.
6. www.ecomomicconcepts.com/capital formation
7. .www.nsiindia.gov.in
6. http://foundation.moneylifein/article/agents -community-angry-over-
small-savings-committees-recommendations/12625.html
9. http://www.insmallsavings.com
10. http://oldagesolution.blogspot.com/2009/08/senior-citizen-savings-scheme-
scss.html
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