Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Wednesday took stock of the preparations for the launch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious scheme MUDRA in Jharkhand. Both the CM and the Union Minister expressed satisfaction over the preparation of banks for the launch of the scheme scheduled on October 2 by the PM at Dumka in the State.
While reviewing the preparations during a high-level meeting attended by senior officials of the State Government and senior bank officials, the CM appealed to bankers to make the MUDRA scheme available to maximum beneficiaries of the State and become participant the economic self dependence of the State. He said that the Government wanted to make the benefits of the scheme reach to the last man in the State.
The CM expressed happiness that the Prime Minister would visit Dumka on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary to give momentum to the MUDRA scheme. Under the scheme small and medium entrepreneurs and businessmen would be granted loans between RS 50,000 and 10 lakh without collateral at lower interest rates.
Underlining the priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards inclusive development Union Minister Dharmendra Pardhan told the bankers present in the meeting that 19 crore accounts have been opened in banks under the PM Jan Dhan Yojna. Similarly, he said, it was expected from banks to increasingly participate in the MUDRA scheme giving loans to small businessmen so that the entrepreneurs could be financially aided and the cocept of inclusive development could be given a proper shape. Talking about domestic gas connections, he said that only 33 per cent households in Jharkhand have lPG connections and the percentage is much below the national average. The Union Petroleum Ministry is trying to provide lPG connections to BPl families in Jharkhand at a subsidized rate. Pradhan said that he would request the PM to start the scheme from Dumka itself.
Development Commissioner RS Poddar, Additional Chief Secretary NN Pandey, Principal Secretary of Planning and Finance Amit Khare, Principal Secretary of Rural Development NN Sinha, Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, Secretary to CM Sunil Barnwal, DGP DK Pandey, ADG (Operations) SN Pradhan, Seceretary of Food and Civil Supplies Vinay Chaubey, SlBC Convenor MK Gupta, CGM of Nabard SK Mandal, DGM of SBI MK Panda, Jharkhand Gramin Bank GM Brijlal, GM of Allahabad Bank PS Dutta among senior officials of several other banks were present in the meeting.