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TMI BlogNew Services in Banks’ Priority Area.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... New Services in Banks’ Priority Area. - News and Press Release Dated:- 9-8-2012 - News - Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 09-August-2012 17:55 IST New Services in Banks Priority Area The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, revised its guideline on Priority Sector Lending (PSL) on 20.07.2012. The details of important changes in the activities incl ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... uded in the revised Priority Sector Lending guidelines are as under: Overall target under priority sector is retained at 40 per cent. The targets for both direct and indirect agricultural lending are kept unchanged at 13.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent of Adjusted Net Bank Credit, respectively. Loans to Micro and Small Service enterprises up-to- Rs. 1 crore and all loans to Micro and Small Man ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ufacturing Enterprises. Loans upto Rs. 25 lakh for housing in metropolitan centres of population above 10 lakh and Rs. 15 lakh at other centres. Loans to Food and Agro processing units. Loans to individuals for educational purposes including for vocational courses upto Rs. 10 lakh in India and Rs. 20 lakh abroad. Loans for housing projects exclusively for economically weaker sectio ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ns and low income groups provided the cost does not exceed Rs. 5 lakh per dwelling unit. Loans to distressed farmers indebted to non-institutional lenders. Overdrafts upto Rs. 50000/- in No-Frills account. Loans to State Sponsored Organizations for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Loans to individuals for setting up of off-grid solar and other off-grid renewable energy soluti ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ons for households. Loans to individuals other than farmers upto Rs. 50000/- to prepay their debt to non-institutional lenders. Foreign banks having 20 or more branches in the country have been brought on par with domestic banks for priority sector targets in a phased manner over a maximum period of 5 years starting April 1, 2013. The foreign banks with less than 20 branches will have ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... no sub targets within the overall priority sector lending target of 32 per cent. Bank loans to Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), Farmers Service Societies (FSS) Large Adivasi Multi-Purpose Co-operative Societies (LAMPS) ceded to or managed/controlled by such banks for on-lending to farmers for agricultural and allied activities are included under direct agriculture. The revise ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d guidelines are available on the website of RBI at www.rbi.org.in. This was stated by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri Namo Narain Meena in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. * * * DSM/RS/bs - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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