{"id":1034446,"date":"2026-09-10T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034446"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:07:51","slug":"tap-upi-data-to-boost-msme-lending-niti-aayog-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/tap-upi-data-to-boost-msme-lending-niti-aayog-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap UPI data to boost MSME lending: Niti Aayog head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The chief of the central planning body Niti Ayog thinks more credit to small businesses can help lift the low credit to GDP ratio of 53-55%, which is only a third of the average levels in the developed economies and tapping the vast UPI data will be a better way to address the gap. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe low credit-to-GDP ratio of just 53-55%, as against the 150-170% in the developed world, leaves formal lending base too shallow, especially for small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The chief of the central planning body Niti Ayog thinks more credit to small businesses can help lift the low credit to GDP ratio of 53-55%, which is only a third of the average levels in the developed economies and tapping the vast UPI data will be a better way to address the gap. \u201cThe low credit-to-GDP ratio of just 53-55%, as against the 150-170% in the developed world, leaves formal lending base too shallow, especially for small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034509,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034446\/revisions\/1034509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}