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MSME Minister, Narayan Rane launched the revamped CGTMSE Scheme in Mumbai today. CGTMSE has been provided with an additional corpus support of Rs. 9,000 crores in the Union Budget for FY 2023-24 to revamp its Scheme to provide a guarantee for an additional Rs. 2 lakh crore to Micro & Small Enterprises.
Accordingly, the major revamp measures were launched and disseminated to the lending institutions. The modifications included a reduction in guarantee fees for loans up to Rs. 1 crore by 50 per cent bringing the minimum guarantee fee to the level of 0.37 per cent pa only.
Another major change announced was raising of ceiling for a guarantee from Rs. 2 crores to Rs. 5 crores and enhancing the threshold limit for claim settlement without initiation of legal action to Rs. 10 lahks.
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While launching the revamp measures Rane impressed upon the lending institutions to make the best use of liberalisation to ensure enhanced lending to the MSE Segment without insisting on collateral.
He expressed confidence that such measures would enthuse bankers to reduce their dependence on the availability of collateral security which continues to be a problem for MSEs, especially the first generation entrepreneurs.
Speaking on the occasion, Secretary, B B Swain apprised that CGTMSE was also collaborating with various State Governments for enhanced guarantee coverage for MSEs in respective States. He exuded confidence that all policy-level modifications, along with other initiatives being taken by CGTMSE, would result in greater utilisation of the guarantee mechanism.
Shri S Ramann, Chairman and Managing Director, SIDBI (who is also the Chairman of CGTMSE) said that CGTMSE has been taking various initiatives which aim at boosting credit flow to MSEs by making the guarantee Scheme attractive for both MSEs as well as for the lenders. He also indicated that CGTMSE would come out with more schemes and assured the lenders that it would always be nimble-footed in responding to their requirements.
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Banks which had best utilised the guarantee Scheme were felicitated by the Union Minister. Senior executives of banks and NBFCs appreciated the changes being brought in the Scheme and expressed confidence that these measures will go a long way in facilitating collateral-free lending to MSEs in the country and thus create employment in a big way.
During the function, it was announced that CGTMSE will collaborate with the National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ni-msme), Hyderabad for setting up a Centre of Financial Inclusion for MSME.
