Chetna Sinha was told rural women are unbankable. She started India’s first rural women’s bank.
Kantabai was a welder in Mhaswad, Maharashtra. She wanted to open a savings account. Every bank she approached turned her away. Only because she didn’t have documents, or a husband’s signature, address proof, or a transaction history that a city-designed banking system recognised as valid. Her story reached Chetna Gala Sinha, a social activist then…