JK Bank Chairman informed
about the launch of SMA-2 Scheme in J&K
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Jammu: Directorate
Industries & Commerce Jammu today organised an interactive session between
J&K Bank and leading industrialists from Jammu Division.
On the occasion, Chairman Jammu
and Kashmir Bank, RK Chhibber informed about the launch of SMA-2 Scheme of
J&K Bank launched by Lieutenant Governor, GC Murmu on Wednesday (June 24,
2020.
He informed that the new
Scheme for SMA -2 shall be having a corpus of Rs 2600 Cr and shall cover 80000
beneficiaries under MSME category including Hotels and guest houses.
He addressed the majority of
the issues of the industrialists on spot and assured the gathering that their
other genuine issues shall be addressed as soon as possible and thanked the
Industries & Commerce Department for organising the interaction.
President of J&K Bank,
Arun Gandotra dwelt at length about the details of Scheme highlighting that the
Emergency Credit Line to Business/ MSMEs announced under the Atma Nirbhar
Bharat Abhiyan was applicable only for accounts which were Non-SMA, SMA-0 or
SMA-1 as on 29-02-2020 with borrowing up to 25 crore and turnover up to Rs 100
crore, however the category of beneficiaries under SMA-2 category were
ineligible under the Scheme.
The Scheme announced today
dealt only with cases which fall under SMA-2 Category as on 29-02-2020. The
Rate of interest for loan under the scheme has been kept at 8.8% per annum and
has to be repaid in 24 months.
The Industrialists while
appreciating the initiatives undertaken by the J&K Bank under the dynamic
leadership of Chhibber requested his intervention for addressing the issues
faced by them in day-to-day functioning of their units. The issues highlighted
by them included higher rate of interest, non acceptance of LC of J&K Bank
by some banks, problems in acceptance of Bank Guarantee by the Northern
Command, hardships faced by the Micro units particularly the ones under PMEGP
in availing finance at the branch level, difficulty in availing additional finance
from the bank and upgrading the CIBIL rating in case of beneficiaries going for
OTS with the Bank.
It was suggested that the Bank
may come out with a Corporate Credit Card and hold awareness camps for NPA and
obtaining a mortgage equivalent to the amount of loan sought.
Dr Ashwani Kumar from MSME-DI
Jammu highlighted the importance of Champion Portal for registering grievances
by the MSMEs and requested for conducting regular meetings of the bank with
Director Industries alongwith representation from MSME Department for handling
of sick units as per RBI norms.
Speaking on the occasion,
Director Industries & Commerce Jammu Anoo Malhotra asked the
representatives of MSME Department to organise UAM Melas and awareness camps
about TReDS platform for the benefit of MSMEs.
The Bank officers held one to
one meetings with the unit holders whose units have turned NPA or stressed for
resolution of their genuine finance related problems which could be overcome
with the intervention of the bank.
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