- The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley has launched the Financial Inclusion Index to measure access and usage of a basket of formal financial products and services such as savings, remittances, credit, insurance and pension products.
- The Annual Financial Inclusion Index (FII) will be released by the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance in January, 2019..
- The index will have three measurement dimensions namely
- Access to financial services
- Usage of financial services
- Quality.
