India Facts

Call it India’s impending credit boom.Three times as many people who have credit cards now want to acquire them over the next 12 months. And people who earn less than Rs1 lakh a year account for almost three-quarters of the demand for new cards. This is one of the findings of the Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey 2007, produced by IIMS Dataworks. The survey provides the first 360-degree view of the financial behaviour and future investment intentions of the Indian workforce. According to the survey, there are 321 million paid workers in India. While 17 million people say they want to get a new credit card in the next year (this includes both people who already have at least one card and those who do not), only 1.47% or 4.31 million people currently have at least one card