law: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981 
  25. Other investment
  
  credit.- 
  
  1.     
  
    The
  
  National Bank may provide such financial assistance as it may consider
  
  necessary for promoting agriculture and rural development by-
  a.     
  
    making
  
  loans and advances, by way of refinance, on such terms and conditions as the
  
  National Bank may think fit to impose, to a State land development bank or a
  
  State co-operative bank or a scheduled bank or any other financial institution
  
  approved by the Reserve Bank in this behalf, and also rescheduling the payment
  
  of such loans and advances:
  Provided that the maximum period for which
  
  any such loan or advance may be granted, whether originally or by rescheduling
  
  the payment thereof, shall not exceed twenty-five years;
  a.    
  b.    
  
    purchasing
  
  or selling, or subscribing to the bonds or debentures issued by any bank or
  
  institution referred to in clause (a) and repayable within a period not
  
  exceeding twenty- five years from the dates on which they are issued;
  c.     
  
    making
  
  loans and advances on such terms and conditions as the National Bank may think
  
  fit to impose, to a State co- operative bank or a scheduled bank for the
  
  purpose of enabling such bank to make loans or advances to artisans,
  
  small-scale industries, industries in the tiny and decentralised sector,
  
  village and cottage industries and those engaged in the field of handicrafts
  
  and other rural crafts and also rescheduling the payment of such loans and
  
  advances:
  Provided that the maximum period for which
  
  any such loan or advance may be granted, whether originally or by rescheduling
  
  the payment thereof, shall not exceed twenty-five years;
  a.    
  b.    
  c.    
  d.    
  
    making,
  
  where it is considered necessary so to do in connection with any financial
  
  assistance under clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c) to a State land
  
  development bank or a State co-operative bank or a scheduled bank, loans and
  
  advances repayable on demand or on the expiry of a fixed period not exceeding
  
  eighteen months, by way of refinance or otherwise to such bank and also rescheduling
  
  the payment of such loans and advances for such period as the National Bank may
  
  deem fit.
  2.     
  
    The
  
  provisions of this section shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of,
  
  the provisions of section 21 and section 24.