CCEA grants Rs 2,500 crore additional funds on export credit

02 Dec 2011 Evaluate

In bid to give comfort to exporters engaged in handicrafts, handlooms, carpets and small & medium enterprises, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved Rs 2,500 crore in additional funds to banks to give 2% interest subvention on rupee credit to exporters. The government recently extended the scheme for exporters of these four sectors by a year up to the end of the 2011-12.

More than Rs 1,250 crore would be given on the basis of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) projection for the period up to March 2011 and Rs 800 crore as estimated by the department of financial services for the financial year. As of now, Rs 1,654 crore has been released for the reimbursement of interest subvention claims while total requirement estimated by the RBI for the period up to March 2011 is Rs 3,892 crore. Therefore, the balance Rs 2,238 crore is pending.

Of this, the commerce department has the approval of CCEA for Rs 996 crore. The approval for the balance Rs 1,250 crore was given on the December 01. The Rs 996 crore will be released to the RBI as and when the funds are made available to commerce department under the relevant head. In the meantime, the department of financial services indicated an additional financial implication of Rs 800 crore in view of the government’s decision to extent the scheme.

The scheme was introduced in July 2007 to help exporters offset the losses because of the global recession. In this scheme, controlled by the RBI, the government gives interest subvention of 2% per annum to all scheduled commercial banks in respect of rupee export credit to the specified categories of exporters. Exporters are facing tough times on the back of ongoing crisis in euro zone. Despite India diversifying into newer markets and the share of the United States and European declining, the debt crisis in euro zone is affecting exporters badly. India’s exports for the month of October fell to 10.8% compared to 36.6% in last month.

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