PSBs disburse loans worth Rs 14,690.84 crore to MSME sector

15 Jun 2020 Evaluate

The Finance Ministry has said that public sector banks (PSBs) have disbursed Rs 14,690.84 crore till June 11, under the Rs 3 lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) for the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. PSBs have sanctioned loans worth Rs 29,490.81 crore under the 100 percent ECLGS for the MSME sector starting June 1, out of which Rs 14,690.84 crore has already been disbursed. The scheme is the biggest fiscal component of the Rs 20-lakh crore Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan package announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month.

On May 21, the Union Cabinet had approved additional funding of up to Rs 3 lakh crore at a concessional rate of 9.25 percent through the ECLGS for the MSME sector. Under the scheme, 100 percent guarantee coverage will be provided by National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC) for additional funding of up to Rs 3 lakh crore to eligible MSMEs and interested Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) borrowers, in the form of a guaranteed emergency credit line (GECL) facility.

For this purpose, a corpus of Rs 41,600 crore was provided by the government, spread over the current and next three financial years. The scheme will be applicable to all loans sanctioned under GECL facility during the period from the date of announcement of the plan to October 31 or till an amount of Rs 3 lakh crore is sanctioned under GECL, whichever is earlier. 

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