Led by the country's largest lender State Bank of India, banks have opened over 3 crore basic accounts within a fortnight of the launch of the scheme on August 28. For long, experts have been asking for the need to ensure transactions in the no-frills accounts, rather than opening accounts alone.

Rajan maintained that the scheme is "good and worthwhile" which will lead to a slew of benefits. "Clearly, universal financial access has to be a national priority. Certainly, it is something well worth for the government to push. You can get a tremendous increase in rural savings," he said, adding that the rural savings rate stands at a low 10 percent now.

Other advantages of the scheme include facets like direct benefit transfer (DBT) which will plug leakages in the system and thus help the government save on subsidies with better targeting. It would lead to more empowerment of the beneficiaries and reduce the cash component in the economy, he said.

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