A UNIVERSAL LOAN PORTAL LAUNCHED BY SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK OF INDIA

A universal loan portal launched by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). Entrepreneurs can apply online for Micro Small Medium Enterprise (MSME) loans up to Rs. 2 crores without visiting their respective bank branches.

Various Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs), Non-Banking Financial Companies, Small Finance Banks and Financial Technology (Fintech) companies have been boarded on the portal.

Government has taken several steps to extend easy loans to MSMEs, which includes advising to all Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) to achieve a 20% year-on-year growth in credit to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) to ensure enhanced credit flow, allocation of 60% of the MSEs advances to the microenterprise accounts, a 10% annual growth in number of micro enterprise accounts, adoption of one cluster, operationalizing at least one specialised MSME Branch in every district etc.

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