Tripura government once again called upon the banks operating in the state to help develop ambitious tourism sector in Tripura. This time Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha who attended the 140th State-Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday, said the state government’s one among the priority sectors is tourism and the banks should take an proactive ole to help government in realizing the plans regarding the sectors.
The Chief Minister maintained that the Banks could play an important role by providing industrious youths with loans for making them self-reliant under Mudra Yojana and Start-up India.
Chief Secretary J.K. Sinha emphasized felt that there could be loan recovery camps by the banks in more numbers and in that case the government would extend all help to the banks.
DGM of Punjab National Bank Anand Kumar said, the banks had set a target for 100 percent disbursement in the primary and other sectors under the Annual Credit Plan 2022-23.
“Till date the banks operating in the state had already disbursed Rs. 1131.36 crore in primary sectors including agriculture, micro, small and medium industries till June in the current year. Besides, as many as 12,170 farmers (KCC card holders) have been given loan of Rs. 77.72 crore.”, he said.
He also said, till June of the Financial year 2022-23, 21 SC and ST beneficiaries have been given loan of Rs. 2,10,96,000 and 38,021 bank account holders have been given loan of Rs. 228.82 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana.
Finance Secretary Brijesh Pandey, Principal Secretary of Revenue department Puneet Agarwal, chief executive officer of PNB- Atul Kumar Goyal, general manager of PNB- Sakshi Gopal Saha, general manager of RBI Agartala Satwant Singh Sahota and other SLBC representatives were present in the meeting.
