Subject(s): Seif help Groups -- Microfinance in India. -- Rural development in India. -- Financial system for Indian's poor -- Microfinance institutions -- MFIs in India, Regulatory framework for MFIs, Promoting linkage between banks and MFIs, sustainability of MFIs -- SHG-bank linkage programme -- SHGs and savings mobilization,Livelihood promotion among SHGs, Emerging SHG federations and challenges, Sustainability of SHGs, Impact of SGSY on SHG : bank linkages -- Successful MFI models -- Sanghamitra, Building nested institutions of savings and credit froups in India, Banking with poor self employed women, Good practice in SHG book keeping, Attending outreach and viability : case study of Bandhan -- Successful bank models -- Pandyan Grama bank SHG linkage model, Prathama bank: farmers club model, Bidar DCCB-PACS model, Chandrapur DCCB -Anganvadi model -- Innovations for growth : Role of technology as a growth catalyst in the microfinance sector, Leveraging mutual Guarantees for gaining financial access:joint liability groups as collateral substitutes, Credit plus approach for tribal development, Innovations in credit delivery systems