Himachal Pradesh Minorities Finance and Development Corporation has distributed loans worth Rs56.79 crore to 3,427 deserving persons of minorities and specially abled for setting up their own ventures.
Presiding over the 40th meeting of Board of Directors, HP Minorities Finance and Development Corporation here, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dhani Ram Shandil said that 2123 persons of minorities had been provided loan of Rs 30.45 Crore besides a sum of Rs 26.34 Crore to the 1304 specially abled for self employment where as Rs 27.02 lakh had been provided as education loan to 17 eligible persons, adding that Rs1162.05 lakh loan has been provided to 311 specially abled persons for higher studies.
He urged the members of BoD, PRIs and officers of various departments to ensure timely delivery of benefits of various schemes of the Government to beneficiaries in every nook and corner of the State and not a single eligible should remain deprived.
Managing Director HP Minorities Finance and Development Corporation, CS Singh informed that the Corporation had been organising awareness camps from time to time so as to ensure the benefit of welfare schemes to the eligible and nine such camps were organised during last fiscal and the calendar for current fiscal was being prepared.