MUDRA-Yojana

 MUDRA YOJANA

1. BUDGET SPEECH­:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the promised Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Ltd (MUDRA) Bank on 8 April 2015 with a corpus of Rs 20,000 crore and a credit guarantee corpus of Rs 3,000 crore. The launch was the fulfillment of an announcement made earlier by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his FY 15-16 Budget speech

2. MUDRA Bank Make a Difference to the Economy:

As per the NSSO Survey of 2013, there are close to 5.77 crore small-scale business units, mostly sole proprietorships, which undertake trading, manufacturing, retail, and other small-scale activities. Compare this with the organized sector and larger companies that employ 1.25 crore individuals. Clearly, the potential to harness and nurture these micro-businesses is vast and the government recognizes this. Today, this segment is unregulated and without financial support or cover from the organized financial banking system.

3. The principal objectives of the MUDRA Bank are:

Regulate the lender and the borrower of microfinance and bring stability to the microfinance system through regulation and inclusive participation.

• Extend finance and credit support to Microfinance Institutions (MFI) and agencies that lend money to small businesses, retailers, self-help groups, and individuals.
• Register all MFIs and introduce a system of performance rating and accreditation for the first time. This will help last-mile borrowers of finance to evaluate and approach the MFI that meets their requirements best and whose past record is most satisfactory. This will also introduce an element of competitiveness among the MFIs. The ultimate beneficiary will be the borrower.
• Provide structured guidelines for the borrowers to follow to avoid failure of a business or take corrective steps in time. MUDRA will help in laying down guidelines or acceptable procedures to be followed by the lenders to recover money in cases of default.
• Develop the standardized covenants that will form the backbone of the last-mile business in the future.
• Offer a Credit Guarantee scheme for providing guarantees to loans being offered to micro-businesses.
• Introduce appropriate technologies to assist in the process of efficient lending, borrowing, and monitoring of distributed capital.
• Build a suitable framework under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana for developing an efficient last-mile credit delivery system to small and micro-businesses.

4. Major Product Offerings:

MUDRA Bank has rightly classified the borrowers into three segments: the starters, the mid-stage finance seekers, and the next level growth seekers.

To address the three segments, MUDRA Bank has launched three loan instruments:

1. Shishu: covers loans up to Rs 50,000/-
2. Kishor: covers loans above Rs 50,000/- and up to Rs 5 lakh
3. Tarun: covers loans above Rs 5 lakh and up to Rs 10 lakh

Initially, sector-specific schemes will be confined to “Land Transport, Community, Social & Personal Services, Food Product and Textile Product sectors”. Over a period of time, new schemes will be launched to encompass more sectors.

5. Some of the Offerings Planned for the Future: 

• MUDRA Card
• Portfolio Credit Guarantee
• Credit Enhancement

 

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