{"id":1034861,"date":"2026-09-12T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034861"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:03:14","slug":"digital-credit-and-inclusion-index-borrowers-from-tier-ii-cities-are-driving-indias-digital-credit-story-finds-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/digital-credit-and-inclusion-index-borrowers-from-tier-ii-cities-are-driving-indias-digital-credit-story-finds-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Credit and Inclusion Index: Borrowers from Tier II cities are driving India\u2019s digital credit story, finds report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to India&#8217;s digital credit story, it is the tier 2 cities that are leading the charge, according to findings from the Digital Credit &amp; Inclusion Index (DCII) 2026, conducted by the Pahl\u00e9 India Foundation and Amazon Pay.<\/p>\n<p>Tier-2 cities lead digital credit and inclusion in the country, with an average score of 58.64, ahead of Tier-1 and Tier-3 cities, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to India&#8217;s digital credit story, it is the tier 2 cities that are leading the charge, according to findings from the Digital Credit &amp; Inclusion Index (DCII) 2026, conducted by the Pahl\u00e9 India Foundation and Amazon Pay. Tier-2 cities lead digital credit and inclusion in the country, with an average score of 58.64, ahead of Tier-1 and Tier-3 cities, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034861","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034862,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034861\/revisions\/1034862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}