Mapping savings pattern: Jaipur as a case study
There is a propensity for savings in the humans. The earliest recoveries from sites of excavations of civilizations, now dead and buried in time, include ornaments and collections of our forefathers that are considered the hallmark of human race. In the modern era the urge to save is manifested in the mushrooming of market-based investment options that have in the course of expansion and vertical growth of economies across the world come to be institutionalized and regulated in different forms: Bank and Post office, realty, bullion and ornaments, insurance and more lately, shares and mutual funds. The post-pandemic era and economic contraction that has reduced the purchasing power drastically has furthered the necessity for a dialogue on savings and its importance in our lives. For any civil society, the assessment of the quality of life of its stakeholders is based on a primary evaluation of how the financial institutions or the allied services have added value to the individual