Chapter 6- BANKING, TRADE AND COMMERCE

A. Banking and Finance :

           (a) History of indigenous banking in the District

           (b) General credit facilities available in the district.

(i) Indebtedness, rural and urban, and the extent to which usury is prevalent.

(ii) Role of private money-lenders and financiers.  Old and renowned families and highly prominent figures.

(iii) Joint stock banks and loan and investment companies : Particulars of lending institutions to be given-when established, number of  branches, volume of business in the District etc., as far as information is available.

(iv) Co-operative credit societies and banks.

        (c) General and life insurance : Leading companies operating, risks covered, extent of business, etc. as far as information is available.

         (d) Stock exchange and high finance in the case of districts where stock exchange business is of importance.

          (e) State assistance to industrial development : How far availed of in the District and the progress made.

          (f) Currency and coinage : Coins of the State merged in the Indian Union.

B. Trade and Commerce :

        (a) Course of trade : Imports and exports of the Districts, purpose, destination, volume, value, etc.,

         (b) Trade Centres

(i) Regulated markets

(ii) Centres of Wholesale business and mandis: products dealt with, total turnover, and general importance in the commercial world.

(iii) Important retail marketing centres.

(iv) Fairs, melas and other rural marketing centres.

         (c) Co-operation in wholesale and retail trade.

         (d) State-trading : Fair price shops, activities of the State Trading Corporation, etc.

         (e) Merchant and consumer association and labour organisations and organs for dissemination of trade news.

         (f) Weights and measures : Old units and adoption of all-India standards.