MINISTER, MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION(SHRI MANI SHANKAR AIYAR)
(a): The State - wise disbursement of funds by the North Eastern Development Finance
Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) during the last three years is as follows:
(Rs. in lakh)
State 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Arunachal 778 610 725
Assam 2285 5342 6680
Manipur 105 50 69
Meghalaya 1542 3199 1321
Mizoram 85 70 115
Nagaland 152 32 105
Sikkim 88 128 354
Tripura 200 1000 55
Total 5235 10431 9424
(b) & (c): NEDFi operates in all States of the North-East including Sikkim. Though NEDFi
makes efforts to achieve balanced deployment of credit in all the eight States, however, on
account of inadequate entrepreneurship in some States, uneven development of infrastructure
and industrial growth within the region, and remoteness, the capacity for absorption of
credit is different in different States.
(d): The details of financial disbursements by NEDFi to each State of the North East are
available on their web-site www.nedfi.com under the head “State-wise sanctions and
disbursementsâ€.
(e): NEDFi has not prioritized any sector for financial assistance. It has extended
credit to viable projects in the following sectors: industrial projects, infrastructure,
equipment leasing / financing, tourism, medical and aromatic plants, agriculture and allied
activities, bamboo processing, Information Technology – Enabled Services (ITES), commercial
complexes, micro – enterprises etc.
(f): The sector – wise sanction of projects by NEDFi in the last three years is given
in the following table:
Sector – wise sanctions in last 3 years
Sector 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Total Rs. in lac
Basic Metal 1429 2608 2368 6405
Cement 0 2309 3000 5309
Food Products 518 400 202 1120
Services 612 812 1203 2627
Infrastructure 3332 2134 1899 7365
Chemical Products 1534 2504 0 4038
Textiles 86 32 133 251
Information Technology 96 2 6 104
Paper Products 265 0 234 499
Plasticand PlasticProducts 186 421 0 607
Agri and Allied industries 99 51 438 588
Micro Finance 93 313 303 709
Miscellaneous 682 1546 4085 6313
Total 8932 13132 13871 35935
Miscellaneous sector includes pharmaceutical, stone crusher, brick and construction
materials, trading and retail activities, electronic equipments, bamboo processing, handicraft,
essential oil and other miscellaneous micro industries.
