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This is with reference to the editorial “Workable plan for the unbanked” (Business Line, January 17). In spite of the endeavour of the commercial and co-operative banks to extend banking facilities to the rural poor, a chunk of them is left unbanked and have no access to the rural credit market.

Of course, co-opting the money lenders to satiate the needs of the unbanked and to bring them into the banking net is a pragmatic suggestion. When such intermediaries are linked to the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the combined force will certainly penetrate the credit market and pave the way for the unbanked.

N. R. Nagarajan e-mail

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