Taken together with loan portfolio under SHG-bank linkage, the overall size of the microfinance loan portfolio is around 4.82 lakh crore. Just to provide a perspective of  1/7  BIS - Central bankers' speeches  the scale of microfinance sector, aggregate credit of all NBFCs (excluding HFCs) stood at 28.5 lakh crore in March 2022.
4 Equity returns, he points out, should depend on long-run expected growth and volatility, and long-run expected volatility - that is to say, uncertainty about long-run growth rates - does not necessarily diminish in proportion to reductions in businesscycle volatility.