ICT IN FINANCIAL INCLUSION.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of information communication technology in financial inclusion. To pull millions of Indians out of poverty, inclusive growth is extremely necessary by covering large population of India with financial services. Financial inclusion is a crucial driver for such growth. Many efforts have been made to achieve the objectives of the financial inclusion and one such effort is adoption of ICT in banking sector. The role of Information Technology can be realized from the fact that it has greater population penetration and its ability to serve in remote location at low cost which is essential requirement for Financial Inclusion. According to the index of Crisil Inclusix 2013, among the various districts in Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is the top scorer of financial inclusion and next comes Chennai in all four years.