Government passes bill to help MSMEs in dealing with liquidity problems

28 Dec 2011 Evaluate

Government has passed a bill to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in dealing with their liquidity problems and to regulate the factoring business. The Rajya Sabha passed the Regulation of Factors (Assignment of Receivables) Bill 2011, in the extended winter session after the bill got nod of Lok Sabha earlier.

Namo Narain Meena, the Minister of State (MoS) for Finance, concluding the discussion on the Bill opined that various committees had recommended development of factoring business in the country, especially for the MSMEs.  The MSME units face various payment problems which will be mitigated by this bill.

The Reserve Bank of India will act as the regulator of Factors and the bill will be applicable to all types of industry whether it is small, medium or big.  The minister also said that the government had accepted suggestions of the Standing Committee and then held consultations with the banking sector also in this regard.

High borrowing costs have impacted the micro, small and medium enterprises the most. Though the government has in the recent past restructured loans of Rs 34,000 crore for big corporates, the MSMEs of the country have been largely overlooked.

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