Which of the following are included under Weaker sections category under Priority Sector Lending 1 ...........

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Which of the following are included under Weaker sections category under Priority Sector Lending?

1. Small and Marginal Farmers

2. Individual women beneficiaries up to ?10 lakhs per borrower

3. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

4. Self Help Groups

5. Persons with disabilities

All except 2 & 4

All except 2

All except 3 & 4

All are included

None of the options given above

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Explanation:

What is included under Weaker Sections under priority sector?
Priority sector loans to the following borrowers are eligible to be considered under Weaker Sections category:-

No.	Category
1.	Small and Marginal Farmers
2.	Artisans, village and cottage industries where individual credit limits do not exceed ? 0.1 million
3.	Beneficiaries under Government Sponsored Schemes such as National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) and Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS)
4.	Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
5.	Beneficiaries of Differential Rate of Interest (DRI) scheme
6.	Self Help Groups
7.	Distressed farmers indebted to non-institutional lenders
8.	Distressed persons other than farmers, with loan amount not exceeding ? 0.1 million per borrower to prepay their debt to non-institutional lenders
9.	Individual women beneficiaries up to ? 0.1 million per borrower
10.	Persons with disabilities
11.	Overdraft limit to PMJDY account holder upto ? 10,000/- with age limit of 18-65 years.
12.	Minority communities as may be notified by Government of India from time to time

In States, where one of the minority communities notified is, in fact, in majority, item (12) will cover only the other notified minorities. These States/ Union Territories are Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Lakshadweep.