{"id":9040,"date":"2018-01-17T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:57:21","slug":"only-40-per-cent-population-have-access-to-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/9040","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Only 40 per cent population have access to finance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kathmandu, Jan 17th 2018 : Only 40 per cent country&#8217;s population have access to financial services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At an interaction \u2018Situation of financial institutions in country\u2019 organised by Media International here today, Information Officer at Nepal Rastra Bank, Shambhunath Dhungana, said that financial literacy has been limited to 18 per cent across the nation as most of the financial institutions are centered on urban areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, Director of Insurance Board Raju Raman Poudel said that although the insurance companies have a vital role to reduce risk at financial and non-financial sectors, homework is on to introduce \u2018One house, one insurance\u2019 policy to expand general people\u2019s financial access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to President of Development Bankers\u2019 Association of Nepal, Bharat Raj Dhakal, there is economy depression in rural areas as ratio of consumption is higher than production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Likewise, Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Life Insurance, Pravin Raman Parajuli, and Chief Executive Officer of Prabhu Bank, Ashok Sherchan, pointed out the need of creating public awareness regarding saving and investment, saying financial activities like collection of capital issuing loan make country\u2019s economy movable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion, it is shared that \u2018Banking Expo\u2019 is going to be organised on February 2 and 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kathmandu, Jan 17th 2018 : Only 40 per cent country&#8217;s population have access to financial services. At an interaction \u2018Situation of financial institutions in country\u2019 organised by Media International here <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/9040\" title=\"&#8216;Only 40 per cent population have access to finance&#8217;\">[\u0925\u092a \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930&#8230;..\/Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}