Budget 2019 announcement: 2% interest subvention for MSMEs on loan up to Rs 1 cr

"All MSME units registered with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will now have 2 per cent interest subvention for loans up to Rs 1 crore," he said.

Budget 2019 announcement: 2% interest subvention for MSMEs on loan up to Rs 1 cr
Till date, GeM has registered transactions of more than Rs 17,500 crore which has led to savings of 25-28 per cent. Reuters
Written By: IANS
Updated: Fri, Feb 01, 2019
12:38 pm
New Delhi, IANS
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The government on Friday announced 2 per cent interest subvention for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) for loans up to Rs 1 crore.

"The government has taken many steps to support the MSME sector that provides jobs to crores of people in the country. We recently announced a facility to avail Rs 1 crore loan within 59 minutes," Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said while presenting the Interim Budget for 2019-20.

"All MSME units registered with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will now have 2 per cent interest subvention for loans up to Rs 1 crore," he said.

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Goyal said the government had also increased the share of government procurements from MSMEs through Government eMarketplace (GeM) to 25 per cent, including 3 per cent from MSMEs run by women.

Till date, GeM has registered transactions of more than Rs 17,500 crore which has led to savings of 25-28 per cent.

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