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An increase in cash reserve ratio reduces the excess reserves of commercial banks and limits their credit creating power

India nationalized 14 banks in 1969, bringing the total to 19 nationalized banks (including the earlier nationalized State Bank of India).

The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act was passed in 1972, but the process of nationalization began in 1971 with the takeover of management.

The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) was established on July 1, 1964, as a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India.

Before the nationalization of banks in 1969, private banks were heavily concentrated in urban and metropolitan areas, neglecting rural and semi-urban regions.

A major driver for bank nationalization was that private banks were often controlled by large industrial business houses, which led to the concentration of credit in those specific sectors.

Prior to 1969, private banks prioritized lending to large industries and urban businesses, often ignoring the credit needs of agriculture and small-scale sectors.

Before the nationalization of banks in 1969, the agricultural sector received a very small share of total bank credit, specifically around 2.2 percent. This neglect was a primary driver for the government's decision to nationalize major commercial banks.

Prior to nationalization, commercial banks in India were largely urban-centric and focused on large-scale industries, neglecting agriculture, small-scale industries, and exports. This imbalance was a key justification for the state taking control of the banking sector.

NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) was established in 1982 as the apex regulatory body for overall regulation of regional rural banks and apex cooperative banks in India.