(This article elucidates self-help groups, their activities, loan facilities from banks, advantages of lending to SHGs, Aajeevika- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) for women SHGs in rural areas.) Women Self Help Group (SHG) is a group voluntarily formed by 10-20 women involved in livelihood activities like making candles, artificial jewellery, pavement vendors, hawkers, tailoring jobs,…
The Stand-Up India Scheme is launched by Government of India to generate the profitable employment to hitherto underserved segment of our society. The scheme provides bank loans between 10 lakh and 100 lakh to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch for setting…
Loans must be made available to illiterate customers as are offered to other customers. Their inability to read the contents of document and execution thereof should not be a criterion for sanctioning/denying a loan. As far as execution of documents there is no distinction under law, between a literate and illiterate person. Therefore, the requirements…
[This post answers many questions like ‘What is a PSL certificate?’, ‘Who needs PSLCs?’, ‘How the limit for issuance of each category of PSLC is decided?’ ‘How the PSLC transactions are computed for the determination of PSL target/sub-targets?’, ‘Is there any expiry date for PSLCs?’, ‘Whether the loan assets or risks of loan defaults are…
A revenue Stamp can be explained as a receipt given by the Government in the form of small adhesive stamp in lieu of separate document stating that the tax/fee has been paid to the Government. The receipt for above certain amount shall be mandatorily acknowledged by the receiver affixing and cancelling the revenue stamp. Under…
The non-judicial stamp papers, in the form of engraved, embossed or franked on papers have been used to pay the stamp duty under Indian Stamp Act 1899. Nowadays maximum usage of stamp papers is in the form of e-stamping in lieu of prevalent engraved stamp papers, embossed stamp papers and franked stamp papers. The e-stamping…
(The article gives the insight of important points to be borne in mind at the time of execution of loan documents with a to z check-list.) The system of obtaining proper documents as per sanction terms is called documentation. Without the proper documents, it is hard to create a legally enforceable charge for the security offered.…
[This article elucidates details of three categories of stamp duties in relation to transaction type, on adjudication, impounding of documents and also refund of unused stamp papers. The idea of Government raising revenue by way of stamp duty from the transactions of its citizen said to be originated in Holland in the early sixteenth century.…
The Government of India recently approved the repealing of all earlier schemes under existing National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) and Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS). A new Insurance scheme called “Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is put in place which replaces the old schemes from Kharif 2016. For all loanee farmers who borrow…
The diversion of funds means utilization of funds by the borrower in deviation of sanction terms of the lender, including any of the following occurrences. The credit facility extended for the working capital purposes, used by the unit for long term purposes, which is not in conformity with the sanction terms. The unit deploys borrowed…