SYSTEMS BILL
1
For an excellent review of these issues and experiments see, Nirvikar Singh,
“Information Technology and Rural Development in India” mimeo, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
2
The IL&FS has been appointed as the Program Management Agency for a period of three years to support
the Department of IT, Government of India to facilitate the Scheme rollout.
A summary note
A summary discussion
3
See “The regulation of electronic money issuers”, Financial Services Authority, UK,
consultation Paper 117, December 2001. Also see “A Summary of the Roundtable
Discussion on Stored Value Cards and Other Prepaid Products” The Federal Reserve
Board, New York (Undated).
Vision
Broad Directions
c) Innovation
• Facilitate innovation, for example by avoiding
unreasonable barriers to entry for banks and
non-banks or restrictions on existing market
participants
• Facilitating launch of new financial products and
services.
In case of non-
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Topic Specifics Notes
compliance of the
regulator's orders
or in case of some
disagreement
between the
regulator and the
issuers some
arbitration/resoluti
on mechanism
would be built in.
Large seasonal
migrant labour, poor
urban migrants are
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Topic Specifics Notes
only some examples
D. Summary Conclusion
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