Answer: Option D
Answer: (d)
NABARD is the apex institution in the country that looks after the development of the cottage industry, small industry and village industry, and other rural industries.
Its other functions are:
to coordinate the rural financing activities of all institutions engaged in developmental work at the field level and maintain liaison with Government of India, State Governments, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other national level institutions concerned with policy formulation;
to re-finance the financial institutions which finance the rural sector;
to regulate the cooperative banks and the RRB’s, etc.
NABARD’s refinance is available to;
State Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks (SCARDBs),
State Co-operative Banks (SCBs),
Regional Rural Banks (RRBs),
Commercial Banks (CBs) and
other financial institutions approved by RBI.