THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
(SHRI HARISH RAWAT)
(a) & (b): Under scheme for Technology Upgradation/ Establishment/
Modernization of Food Processing Industries, during 2010-11, so
far an amount of Rs. 96.56 crore has been disbursed as on
11.03.2011, however, due to Budgetary constraints 2681 cases
including 33 cases from Orissa are pending at various stages
as on 22.11.2010 with an amount of Rs. 731.73 crore as per the
information furnished by HDFC Bank.
(c) & (d): Subject to availability of Budgetary resources, grant is
sanctioned on receipt of e-portal request and
requisite deficiency free documents. It may happen that in some
cases due to delay in submission of deficiency free documents,
grants may not have been sanctioned while some of the applicants
applied later but submitted requisite documents may have been
sanctioned grants.
(e): From 2007-08, the receipt of applications, their
appraisal, calculation of grant eligibility as well as
disbursement of funds has been completely decentralized. Under
the new procedure, an entrepreneur/ applicant can file
application with the neighborhood Bank branch/ Financial
Intuition (FI). The Bank/ FIs would then appraise the application
and calculate the eligible grant amount as per the detailed
guideline given to them by the Ministry. The Banks/ FIs appraise
project and its recommendation for the release of grant is
transmitted to the Ministry through e-portal established for this
purpose. After the recommendation and requisite documents are
received from the Bank/ FIs, the Ministry sanctions the grant and
transfer the funds through the e-portal. The task of maintaining
and compilation of data through e-portal has been assigned to
HDFC Bank
Updated data is received from HDFC Bank from time to time
and the same is put on Ministry’s website in public domain. The data
indicates all relevant fields including sector, state, name of
applicant, amount disbursed, bank and details of installments
etc. thus, making the system completely transparent.
