(a): the total amount/number of loan sanctioned to the entrepreneurs under the Khadi and Village Industry
during the last three years;
(b): the percentage of women entrepreneurs sanctioned loan during this period;
(c): whether the Government proposes to reserve some of the items to be manufactured by the women only; and
(d): if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES & AGRO AND RURAL INDUSTRIES (SHRI MAHABIR PRASAD)
(a): Loans are sanctioned by banks to eligible entrepreneurs for setting up village industries under the Rural
Employment Generation Programme (REGP), implemented by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
Further, under the Interest Subsidy Eligibility Certificate (ISEC) Scheme, banks sanction loan to the khadi institutions
registered with the KVIC/State Khadi and Village Industries Boards (KVIBs).
The amounts of loans sanctioned by the financing banks under the REGP and the ISEC Scheme, during the
last 3 years, are as under :
(rs. in crore) year bank loans sanctioned
REGP ISEC SCHEME TOTAL
2002-03 440.69 329.73 770.42 2003-04 604.55 362.70 967.25 2004-05 665.21 278.47 943.68