NABARD : Mission

Mission

Promoting sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural development through effective credit support, related services, institution building and other innovative initiatives.

In pursuing this mission, NABARD focuses its activities on:

Credit functions, involving preparation of potential-linked credit plans annually for all districts of the country for identification of credit potential, monitoring the flow of ground level rural credit, issuing policy and operational guidelines to rural financing institutions and providing credit facilities to eligible institutions under various programmes

Development functions, concerning reinforcement of the credit functions and making credit more productive

Supervisory functions, ensuring the proper functioning of cooperative banks and regional rural banks