
Maximum chargeable interest-rate from anyone by anybody should be fixed
Central and state governments race for gaining sympathy of farmers by loan-waiver schemes, which in fact is more harmful for them because farmers cannot receive any bank-loan after once availing loan-waiver. This pushes them back in hands of money-lenders who take undue advantage by charging extra-ordinary heavy rate of interest.
Apart from this, banks issue credit-card statements boldly depicting Minimum-Amount-Payable but credit-card users are unaware that they have to pay as much as 48-percent annual interest on availing such facility or even more in case of defaults. Moreover unsecured loans are sold by banks and Non-Banking-Financial-Companies NBFCs at times at exorbitant interest-rates crossing even 20-percent per annum.
Reserve Bank of India RBI and Union Ministry of Finance s...