Credit to micro and small enterprises sector is generally perceived as high risk lending, more so, when there is absence of any collateral. In order to encourage banks to lend more to this sector, Government of India and SIDBI have set up the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) in July 2000, to provide credit guarantee support to collateral free / third-party guarantee free loans up to Rs. 100 lakh extended by banks and lending institutions for micro and small enterprise (MSEs) under its Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS).
India SME Technology Services Limited (ISTSL), set up in November 2005, provides a platform for MSMEs to tap opportunities at the global level for acquisition of modern technologies. ISTSL continues to pursue its strategy of rendering technical services for technology transfer and promotion of energy efficient, environment friendly technologies in the MSME sector. Efforts are being made to facilitate reduction in Green House Gases in the MSME sector.
In order to strengthen and accelerate the process of technological modernization in the MSME sector, ISTSL has entered into partnership with various national and international organizations engaged in similar activities. ISTSL took up the project for implementing Energy Efficient technologies in Stainless Steel Re-rolling Cluster of Jodhpur, in association with KfW, Germany. The project is now being taken up for implementing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project by implementing Energy Efficiency measures, which are expected to generate CDM revenues, besides reducing the cost of fuel being consumed by the units.
SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. (SMERA) |
SIDBI, along with leading public, foreign and private sector banks and Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Private Limited (D&B), set up SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. (SMERA) in September 2005, as an MSME dedicated third-party rating agency to provide comprehensive, transparent and reliable ratings and risk profiling.
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India SME Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (ISARC) |
| When user clicks ISARC sub heading the following should appear in the page. India SME Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. India SME Asset Reconstruction Company ltd (ISARC) is the country's first MSME focused Asset Reconstruction Company striving for speedier resolution of non-performing assets (NPA) by unlocking the idle NPAs for productive purposes which would facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to the MSMEs. Set up in April 2008, ISARC's objective is to acquire NPAs and strive to maximize recovery value through innovative resolution methods. It also complied with the conditions stipulated by RBI while granting the Certificate of Registration as an ARC and became fully operational from April 15, 2009. |