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How Suburban, Rural Youth are Being Sucked Into Instant Loan Apps ‘Trap’ -Sashwata Saha

-Newsclick.in Harassment by loan recovery agents hired by these apps has led to at least 21 suicides across India between 2020 and 2021. Meghna Patel took her first loan early in 2020 from an app called FlyCash, whose ads she had been seeing on Facebook. It was a small amount. Just Rs 500. She had to repay Rs 550, two weeks later. The app even had a borrowing limit of Rs 1,000. Recently, her parents had become stricter with her allowance. She needed the cash just to get by for a couple of days till her weekly ‘payday’. She could pay it back then. Two days later, a message popped up informing Meghna that both her borrowing limit and payback time had increased. She could now borrow up to Rs 2,000 for up to two months. Fast forward a couple of weeks and she didn’t have enough to go out clubbing. A couple of taps got her an instant Rs 1,500 in the bank. “The company asked me to pay Rs 50 for every Rs 500 as interest. So, I figured I had to repay Rs 1,650 in two months. But no, if you take a two-month loan then you have to pay an extra interest of Rs 100,” said the 20-year-old undergraduate student from Badlapur, Maharashtra. Soon, she couldn’t afford to take short loans but taking longer loans would mean larger payments and her allowance was almost dry trying to keep up with this vicious cycle. Please click here to read more.