More than 85% of our clients come from the "priority or weak sector", as designated by the Reserve Bank of India. Around 70% of our clients come from backward castes and scheduled tribes. Mann Deshi is proud to have become the only bank in the country to have more than 12,000 members from backward castes, who serve as share holders and help to decide the policy of the bank through the Annual General Body Meeting.
Mann Deshi is committed to promoting micro-enterprise among its clients. Mann Deshi has 140,360 clients. Roughly one-half of Mann Deshi’s clients are poor rural women who earn living as street vendors, vegetable vendors, milk vendors, weavers, wage laborers etc.
The average age of our clients is 36, and they live in households having at least two children and both in-laws. At the bank their average monthly savings is around Rs. 75 ($1.88).
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