The Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), had restructured the erstwhile Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) and launched the National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) in 2013. NULM has been implemented in all district headquarters (irrespective of population) and all the cities with population of 1 lakh or more. The Self…
The “Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities” is the revised guidelines of the earlier programme on Credit facilities to the minority community. The objective of the new programme is to ensure that the benefits of various government schemes for the underprivileged reach the disadvantaged sections of the minority communities which are…
The Reserve Bank on Thursday came out with a Co-Lending Model (CLM) scheme under which banks can provide loans along with NBFCs (including HFCs) to priority sector borrowers based on a prior agreement. The arrangement entailed joint contribution of credit at the facility level by both the lenders as also sharing of risks and rewards.…
Service area approach (SAA) is a developed version of the ‘area approach’ structure of the Lead Bank Scheme. Under SAA plan each commercial bank / RRB branch in a rural and semi-urban area is designated to serve 15 to 25 villages for the planned and orderly development of the areas. The designated branch of a…
Background: In October 1969, the study group lead by Prof. D. R. Gadgil (Gadgil Study Group) recommended the adoption of an ‘Area Approach‘ to evolve plans and programmes for the development of an adequate banking and credit structure in the rural areas. Further, under the chairmanship of Shri F. K. F. Nariman (Nariman Committee) a…
[This post offers updated guidelines/instructions on SHG-Bank linkage programme at one place based on various circulars issued by Reserve Bank of India on the subject up to June 30, 2020] The Self Help Group-Bank Linkage Programme (SBLP) was started in 1992 at the initiative of NABARD. The basic idea of the SBLP is to link…
Updated on June 8, 2020 In view of the extension of moratorium by another three months, i.e., up to August 31, 2020, Government has decided to continue the availability of 2% Interest Subvention and 3% Prompt repayment Incentive (PRI) to farmers for the extended period of repayment up to August 31, 2020, or date of…
Kisan Credit Accounts are normally short term crop loans emerged as an innovative credit delivery mechanism to meet the production credit requirements of the farmers in a timely and hassle-free manner. The repayment period may be fixed as per the anticipated harvesting and marketing period for the crops for which a loan has been granted. …
RBI today (April 21, 2020) announced that “to ensure that farmers do not have to pay penal interest and at the same time continue getting the benefits of interest subvention scheme, Government has decided to continue the availability of 2% IS and 3% PRI to farmers for the extended period of repayment up to 31.05.2020…
Reserve bank of India advised all the scheduled commercial banks that with effect from April 1, 2020, Short Term Crop Loans should be extended only through KCC to be eligible for Interest Subvention Scheme (ISS) and Prompt Repayment Incentive (PRI). According to the notification, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare vide their Office Memorandum,…