Sa-Dhan an association of impact finance institutions, which includes microfinance institutions,

Sa-Dhan an association of impact finance institutions, which includes microfinance institutions, and an SRO appointed by RBI for the microfinance sector is organising the ‘South India Conference on Financial Inclusion in Chennai, a regional level conference, for the first time. The daylong conference will focus on financial inclusion achieved in Southern states of India, basically by extending credit to unserved and underserved population through microfinance, in south India. Speaking about the conference, Jiji Mammen, ED & CEO, Sa-Dhan, said, “South India leads the rest of the country in financial inclusion. The success of microfinance in south India has contributed significantly to this. Be it the Self-Help Affinity Groups promoted by MYRADA in the 1980s, which evolved into the SHG bank linkage programme, or the demonstration of the scale-up potential of lending to Joint Liability Groups by specialized institutions called MFIs, it has been the states of southern India that have shown the path.”