Complete Solutions and Summary of Money and Credit – NCERT Class 10, Economics, Chapter 3 – Summary, Questions, Answers, Extra Questions
Comprehensive summary and explanation of Chapter 3 'Money and Credit', covering the evolution and functions of money, role of banks and modern money, demonetisation, digital transactions, importance of credit, types of credit arrangements, Grameen Bank, challenges for financial inclusion, and credit availability for the poor—all with question answers and extra questions from NCERT Class X Economics.
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Money and Credit
Chapter 3: Economics - Complete Study Guide | NCERT Class 10 Notes & Questions 2025
Comprehensive Chapter Summary - Money and Credit Class 10 NCERT
Overview and Notes for the Teacher
- Chapter Purpose: Explores money as fascinating with curiosities; history of forms (grains, cattle, metallic coins). Modern money linked to banking; focus on social situations of use. In India, newer forms spreading with computerisation; explore digital transactions, demonetisation (Nov 2016: Rs 500/1000 invalid, replaced; promoted bank deposits, digital methods like internet/mobile, cheques, ATM/credit cards, POS). Debate impact; collage on digital/cash legitimate uses. Plastic cards not all money.
- Credit Focus: Crucial in economic life; aspects of arrangements, effects on people. Use familiar situations; availability to poor on reasonable terms as right for development. Innovative like Grameen Bank; social challenge for developing countries.
- Sources: Data from NSSO (All India Debt and Investment Survey, 77th Round 2019, now NSO); Grameen Bank from news/websites; RBI (www.rbi.org) for bank stats; NABARD (www.nabard.org) for SHGs.
- Expanded Relevance 2025: With digital economy growth, focus on demonetisation effects, SHGs empowerment; sustainable credit for inclusive growth. Update: Post-COVID credit recovery.
- Exam Tip: Distinguish formal/informal; use graphs for credit sources; know terms like collateral, debt-trap.
- Broader Implications: Money eliminates barter issues; credit boosts earnings or traps; formal expansion reduces informal exploitation.
Money as a Medium of Exchange
- Role in Daily Life: Large part of everyday transactions involve money; buy/sell goods/services, or future promises.
- Why Money: Allows easy exchange for any commodity/service; e.g., shoe manufacturer sells shoes for money, buys wheat. Eliminates double coincidence of wants in barter (both parties agree to exchange exactly what other wants).
- Barter Challenges: Difficult without money; need mutual wants. Money as intermediate step solves this.
- Historical Forms: Before coins, grains/cattle; then metallic (gold/silver/copper) till last century.
Modern Forms of Money
- Currency: Paper notes/coins; not precious metals or everyday use; accepted as medium because government-authorised (RBI issues in India; legal tender, cannot refuse rupees).
- Deposits with Banks: People hold as demand deposits (withdrawable anytime); earn interest; safe. Cheques: Paper instructing bank to pay from account to named person.
- Cheque Example: Shoe manufacturer pays leather supplier via cheque; money transfers accounts without cash.
- Link to Banking: Modern money (currency/deposits) tied to banking system.
Loan Activities of Banks
- Deposits and Loans: Banks keep ~5% cash for withdrawals; use rest for loans at higher interest than deposits (main income source).
- Mechanism: Mediate between depositors (surplus) and borrowers (need); not all depositors withdraw same day.
- Risk: If all withdraw simultaneously, bank might fail (but rare due to regulations).
Two Different Credit Situations
- Festival Season (Positive): Salim (shoe manufacturer) borrows for order; hires workers, buys materials (leather on credit, advance cash); delivers, profits, repays. Credit meets working capital, boosts earnings.
- Swapna's Problem (Negative): Small farmer borrows for groundnut cultivation; crop fails (pests); cannot repay, debt grows; sells land. Debt-trap: Credit worsens situation.
- Dependency: Credit usefulness depends on risks, support in loss.
Terms of Credit
- Components: Interest rate, collateral (asset as security; sellable if default), documentation, repayment mode. Vary by lender/borrower.
- Example: House Loan: Megha borrows Rs 5 lakhs at 12% for 10 years; submits employment/salary docs; house papers as collateral.
- Rural Demand: Mainly crop production (inputs like seeds/fertilisers); 3-4 months till harvest; repayment from income (risky if failure).
Variety of Credit Arrangements
- Village Example (Sonpur): Shyamal (small farmer) borrows from trader at 3%/month, sells crop to him. Arun (medium farmer) bank loan at 8.5%, repays/stores for fresh loan. Rama (labourer) from employer at 5%/month, works to repay; owes Rs 5000.
- Uses: Cultivation, emergencies, functions.
- Terms Comparison: Small: High interest, forced sale; Medium: Lower rate, flexibility; Landless: High rate, labour-bound.
Loans from Cooperatives
- Role: Major cheap rural credit; members pool resources (farmers/weavers etc.). Krishak Cooperative: 2300 members, deposits as collateral for bank loan; lends for implements/cultivation/fishery/houses.
- Process: Repaid loans enable new rounds.
Formal Sector Credit in India
- Sources: Formal (banks/cooperatives); Informal (moneylenders/traders/employers/relatives). Graph 1: Rural households - Commercial banks 51%, Moneylenders 23%.
- RBI Supervision: Monitors cash balance, lending (to small cultivators/industries); ensures not just profit-makers.
- Informal Issues: No supervision; high interest, unfair recovery.
- Costs: Informal higher; reduces borrower income, leads to debt-trap; discourages enterprise.
- Need: Expand formal for cheap credit, higher incomes, growth.
Formal and Informal Credit: Who Gets What?
- Graph 2: Urban: Poor households 54% informal; Rich 83% formal. Rich get cheap formal; poor expensive informal.
- Implications: Formal meets ~half rural needs; rest informal high-cost. Expand formal, equal distribution for poor benefit.
Self-Help Groups for the Poor
- Challenges: Poor depend informal; banks absent/difficult (collateral/docs needed); informal high rates, harassment.
- SHGs: Organise rural poor/women; 15-20 members save Rs 25-100+; internal loans at low interest; after 1-2 years, bank loans for self-employment (mortgage release, inputs, assets).
- Features: Group decisions; responsible for repayment; overcomes collateral issue; timely/reasonable loans; platform for social issues (health/nutrition/violence).
- Grameen Bank: Bangladesh success; 9M members (mostly poor women); reliable borrowers, income-generating activities. Muhammad Yunus Nobel 2006: "Credit to poor on reasonable terms creates development wonder."
Summing Up
- Modern Money-Banking Link: Depositors/borrowers; credit positive (earnings) or negative (debt-trap).
- Sources/Terms: Formal/informal; vary; formal expand, equalise for poor.
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Key Themes
- Economic Variations: Formal vs informal credit.
- Systems Details: Banking, SHGs, demonetisation. Graphs: 1 & 2 for sources.
- Empowerment Links: SHGs for women/poor.
- Critical Thinking: Why debt-trap? How formal reduces exploitation? Credit role in development.
Cases for Exams
Use Graphs for credit distribution; discuss SHGs/Grameen; analyze demonetisation impacts.
Exercises Summary
- Focus: Expanded to 60 Q&A from PDF: 20 short (2M), 20 medium (4M), 20 long (8M) based on NCERT exercises + similar.
- Project Idea: Debate on demonetisation; collage on transactions.
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