loan Rs 37.24 crore has been provided to 23,943 women self-help groups during the last ten years, under the Chhattisgarh Mahila Kosh run by Woman and Child Development department of the state government.
Chhattisgarh Mahila Kosh has reduced the rate of interest on the loan being given to the women self-help groups from 6.5 per cent to 3 per cent. Under the scheme, now, mahila self-help groups will get maximum amount of Rs 50,000 for first time and after successful repayment of the loan, loan up to Rs 2 lakh will be given to them for second time. The loan scheme of the Chhattisgarh Mahila Kosh is being run from 2003-04 to connect the women self-help groups in income-oriented activities. Officers of Woman and Child Development Department said here on Monday that under the loan scheme of Chhattisgarh Mahila Kosh Rs 32.14 lakh had been given to 688 women self-help groups in 2003-04.
Similarly, in 2004-05 Rs 94.54 lakh had been given to 1,802 groups, Rs 1.40 crore to 2,105 groups in 205-06, Rs 2.54 crore to 2,684 groups in 2006-07, Rs 3.12 crore to 2,859 groups in 2007-08, Rs 3.84 crore to 3,277 groups in 2008-09, Rs 6.21 crore to 2,837 groups in 2009-10, Rs 5.79 crore to 2,212 groups in 2010-11, Rs 5.79 crore to 2,142 groups in 2011-12, Rs 6.79 crore to 2,970 groups in 2012-13 and Rs 1.10 crore has been distributed to 367 groups in 2013-14, up to August.