To make members belonging to Scheduled Castes self-employable, Haryana Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation has provided financial assistance of more than Rs 13.19 crore including Rs 1.38 crore as subsidy to 2,105 beneficiaries under various schemes upto October 2017.
The members belonging to Scheduled Castes are being provided loans under various categories so as to enable them to set up their ventures and make them self-employable, said a spokesman of the Corporation.
These categories included agriculture and allied, industrial, trade and business sectors, professional and self-employment sector. Financial assistance under schemes assisted by National Scheduled Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC) is also being provided to them, said he.
Giving details, the spokesman said that under agriculture and allied sector, loans worth Rs 8.36 crore for dairy and piggery farming, sheep rearing and Jhota Bhuggi was disbursed among 1,506 beneficiaries upto October, this year. Out of which, more than Rs 7.52 crore has been released as bank loan, Rs 83.40 lakh as subsidy and Rs 43,000 as margin money.
Similarly, Rs 30.60 lakh had been provided to 47 beneficiaries under industrial sector scheme. Out of which, Rs 23.27 lakh had been released as bank loan, Rs 4.27 lakh as subsidy and Rs 3.06 lakh as margin money, said he.
Under trade and business sector, Rs 3.75 crore had been provided to 511 beneficiaries. Out of which, Rs 2.89 crore had been released as bank loan, Rs 49.22 lakh as subsidy and Rs 37.02 lakh as margin money, added the spokesman.
He further said that in the professional and self employment sector, Rs 2 lakh has been given to two beneficiaries out of which Rs 1.60 lakh had been released as bank loan and Rs 20,000 each as subsidy and margin money. Similarly, Rs 74.50 lakh had been released among 39 beneficiaries under the schemes assisted by NSFDC during the same period. Out of this, the share of the State Corporation was Rs 6.35 lakh, added he.