{"id":113212,"date":"2021-05-19T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=113212"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:47:34","slug":"rural-infrastructure-development-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/rural-infrastructure-development-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Infrastructure Development Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following facts regarding Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF):<br>i) Government of India created the RIDF in NABARD in 1995-96, with an initial corpus of Rs.2,000 crore.<br>ii) NABARD has recently announced that it has provided Rs 1,236 crores to Assam in 2020-21 from its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).<br>Which of the above are correct:-<\/strong><br>a) i<br>b)ii<br>c) i and ii both<br>d) none<br><strong>Ans: c<br>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has allocated an all time high amount of Rs 1,236 crores to Assam in 2020-21 from its Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).<\/li><li>This fund has been allocated with Rural Connectivity as prime focus area for investment.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 1995-96, the Government of India set up RIDF for financing ongoing rural infrastructure projects. The funds released under RIDF are maintained by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).<\/li><li>The main objective of the fund is to provide loans to State Governments, State-owned corporations, State Govt. Sponsored \/ Supported Organisations, Panchayat Raj Institutions\/Self Help Groups (SHGs)\/ NGOs to enable them to complete ongoing rural infrastructure projects.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By kameshwar shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nabard.org\/content1.aspx?id=573&amp;catid=8&amp;mid=488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nabard.org\/content1.aspx?id=573&amp;catid=8&amp;mid=488<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/nabard-provided-rs-1236-crore-from-its-rural-infrastructure-development-fund-for-assam-in-fy21\/articleshow\/82635622.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/nabard-provided-rs-1236-crore-from-its-rural-infrastructure-development-fund-for-assam-in-fy21\/articleshow\/82635622.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following facts regarding Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF):i) Government of India created the RIDF in NABARD in 1995-96, with an initial corpus of Rs.2,000 crore.ii) NABARD has recently announced that it has provided Rs 1,236 crores to Assam in 2020-21 from its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).Which of the above are correct:-a) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":113213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-113212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113214,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113212\/revisions\/113214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}