The discussion featuring Nehal Vora, MD & CEO, CDSL, Goverdhan Singh Rawat, Deputy Managing Director, NABARD, and Shrutika Patade, Research Officer, MITRA explored how Maharashtra can strengthen its growth story by expanding access to credit, deepening capital markets and leveraging digital public infrastructure. The speakers highlighted the growing role of retail participation in capital markets, technology-led financial inclusion, digitisation of rural finance, and the need to strengthen cooperative institutions to improve credit delivery across the state.The panel also examined how policy reforms, public-private partnerships and municipal finance can unlock investment for infrastructure, agriculture and urban development. The speakers discussed initiatives to improve irrigation, develop agricultural clusters, enhance SME access to capital markets, and build bankable infrastructure projects that can attract both public and private investment.Discussing the future of financial inclusion, the panel underscored the importance of investor education, vernacular outreach, women-led investing, AI-driven financial services and technology-enabled lending. They also stressed that collaboration between government, financial institutions and capital markets will be critical to bridge the MSME credit gap, strengthen rural financial institutions and build a resilient financing ecosystem for Maharashtra’s long-term economic growth.Watch the complete panel discussion for insights on rural finance, capital markets, financial inclusion, digital public infrastructure, cooperative banking, municipal finance, public-private partnerships, MSME financing, investor participation, agricultural infrastructure and Maharashtra’s roadmap to becoming a trillion-dollar economy.
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