Amid second wave of COVID-19, Indian Banks Association (IBA) Chairman Rajkiran Rai said that this has impacted the collections of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in the month of May. He said ‘It is difficult to give numbers but can say that we faced difficulty in collections in the Month of May’. On the impact of the second wave on collection in Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) of Home Loan, Personal loan and payment of credit card bills when compared with the first wave, R Rai said ‘We have seen some substantial improvement in the month of April 21 against April 2020, but we are witnessing the impact on the collection of banks in the current month of May’.
He also said ‘It is difficult to give numbers as there is some time for month closing but can say that we are facing difficulties in collections in May month and we offering the available reconstructing scheme to customers’. He said that the government has announced the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) of Rs 3 lakh crores for MSMEs last year. He added ‘Out of Rs 3 lakh crore of ECLGS for MSMEs Rs 2.54 lakh crore is disbursed to date. Still, there is a window available for roughly, Rs 45,000 lakh crore’.
The IBA also joined hands with SBI to announce three products that have been designed to provide fresh lending support to tackle the pandemic. The IBA and SBI jointly announced three products that have been designed to provide fresh lending support to vaccine manufacturers, hospitals or dispensaries, pathology labs, manufacturers and suppliers of Oxygen, Ventilators, importers of vaccines and Covid related drugs logistics firms and patients for treatment.
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