{"id":255373,"date":"2025-05-29T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/banking-services-to-2500-population-equivalent-to-one-bank-branch-on-average-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:28:43","slug":"banking-services-to-2500-population-equivalent-to-one-bank-branch-on-average-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/banking-services-to-2500-population-equivalent-to-one-bank-branch-on-average-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking services to 2,500 population equivalent to one bank branch on average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. On an average, more than 2,500 people have access to banking services equivalent to one bank branch in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel today held a joint meeting of the Parliament. He made this data public while presenting the Economic Survey of 81. &#8220;Financial access has increased. The bank&#8217;s branches have reached all the local levels,&#8221; said Minister Poudel, adding, &#8220;On an average, banking services have been made available to 2,527 people from each branch of banks and financial institutions.&#8221; \u2019<\/p>\n<p>Deposits of banks and financial institutions increased by 9.5 percent and credit from banks and financial institutions to the private sector increased by 7.7 percent in mid-February 2018. The NEPSE index stood at 2736.49 points in mid-February 2019. Access to life insurance has reached 44.17 percent of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. On an average, more than 2,500 people have access to banking services equivalent to one bank branch in the country. Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel today held a joint meeting of the Parliament. He made this data public while presenting the Economic Survey of 81. &#8220;Financial access has increased. The bank&#8217;s branches have reached all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":255367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45117,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-finance-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/255367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}