Banks will also consider requests from MSMEs for restructuring their stressed standard assets
Tech is helping extend credit to the MSME sector
Sonowal also appealed to the entrepreneurs to take benefits of the National SC/ST hub to add capacity building.
At present, the MSME sector contributes 65 per cent of the state's annual industrial output and is the second biggest employer after agriculture
Central schemes may be significantly modified to maximise returns on fund allocation and speed up industrial output
He further said that secondly, the government is working on policy to increase indigenous production of products that are being imported
49 state depts were to get Rs 69,459 cr in all during 2019-20, of which Rs 22,588 cr or less than a third of the total was released in first six months of the current fiscal
There will be a huge requirement of aircraft in the next 10 to 20 years in military aviation of the country, said Air Marshall R K S Shera, Air Officer Maintenance of the IAF
He said earlier Indian companies used to export material and import finished goods due to lack of technology availability
On the capital issue, he said cost of capital is high in the country and it is difficult to get finance from the banking system
As per the report, in September, the jump in retail credit at Rs 51,900 crore was nearly double that of August, of which housing loans jumped by 2.6 times.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Bank managing director Rajkiran Rai G said, through the hundred years journey, the bank has been serving national priorities.
In 2015-16, India had 63.4 million MSMEs employing 111 million persons, according to National Sample Survey data cited in the MSME Annual Report 2018-19
Chairman of CII Tamil Nadu council S Chandramohan said the trade body has been taking initiatives to support MSMEs' growth
The new definition is likely to be effected through an amendment to the MSME Act and may lead to further improvement in India's ease of doing business scenario
UP and Bihar accounted for the largest number of migrant workforce in India
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a review meeting with CEOs of public sector banks (PSBs) on Monday to discuss various issues, including progress on credit offtake, as part of efforts to prop up the economy. The meeting is expected to review fund flow to stressed NBFC and MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) sectors, sources said. Banks are expected to present report card on partial credit guarantee scheme and fund raising from market to enhance their capital base. The Centre in August issued guidelines on operationalising Rs 1 lakh crore partial guarantee scheme under which PSBs can purchase high-rated pooled assets of financially sound non-banking finance companies (NBFCs). NBFCs, including housing finance companies (HFCs), came under stress following a series of defaults by the group companies of IL&FS in September last year. Besides, the meeting will also assess the progress of first phase of outreach programme held across 226 districts across the ...
Aimed at developing a cadre of indigenous entrepreneurs in the MSMEs, the EDCs will be similar to incubators for start-ups, according to a official documents reviewed by Business Standard
State-owned lenders will hold meetings with Non-Banking Financing Companies--or shadow banks--and new retail customers in 200 districts till September 29 to explore giving credit
Stressed MSME assets will not be labelled NPAs till March 31, 2020