Finance Minister asks private banks to ensure effective rollout of Rs 3-lakh crore ECLGS for MSMEs

16 Jun 2020 Evaluate

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has held a meeting with the heads of major private sector banks, CEOs of major non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and asked them to ensure effective rollout of Rs 3-lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) for the MSME sector, hit hard by coronavirus-induced lockdown.

As of June 11, public sector banks have sanctioned loans worth Rs 29,490.81 crore under the 100 per cent Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme. Out of this Rs 14,690.84 crore has already been disbursed. The scheme is the biggest fiscal component of the Rs 20-lakh crore Self-Reliant India Mission package announced by the government last month. On May 21, the Cabinet had approved additional funding of up to Rs 3 lakh crore at a concessional rate of 9.25 per cent through ECLGS for the MSME sector.

Under the scheme, 100 per cent guarantee coverage are being 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. The main objective of the scheme is to provide an incentive to member lending institutions to increase access and enable availability of additional funding facility to MSME borrowers, in view of the economic distress caused by the COVID-19 crisis. 

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