Lok Sabha Question No. 6042 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-04
Subject: NMDFC
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: P.R. SUNDARAM, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.6042 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.04.2018

## NMDFC

6042.   SHRI P.R. SUNDARAM: SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE: SHRI SATAV RAJEEV: DR. HEENA VIAJYKUMAR GAVIT: DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the contribution and achievement  of  National  Minorities  Development  and  Finance Corporation (NMDFC) in the upliftment of minorities since its inception;
- (b)  the  number  of  beneficiaries  of  different  minority  groups  who  received  financial  assistance from NMDFC during the last three years and the current year;
- (c)  whether  the  National  Minorities  Development  and  Finance  Corporation  (NMDFC)  has received any project(s) from various State Governments and if so, the details thereof during each of the last three years and the current year, if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (d) the details of projects/proposals sanctioned by the Government, State-wise;
- (e) the time by which the pending projects are proposed to be sanctioned, project-wise and the reasons for delay in this regard; and
- (f) the steps taken by the Government for their early disposal, project-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI)

- (a) National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC)  has been implementing schemes for the socio-economic development of the 'backward sections' amongst the notified minorities namely Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Christians and Buddhists through the  State  Channelising  Agencies  (SCAs)  nominated  by  the  respective  State  Governments/UT Administration.  For  availing  assistance  under  NMDFC  schemes,  the  annual  family  income eligibility criterion under Credit Line-1 is Rs.98,000 for rural areas  and  Rs.1.20 lakh for urban areas.  Higher  annual  family  income  eligibility  criterion  of  upto  Rs.6.00  lakh  has  also  been introduced as Credit Line-2 for increasing coverage of beneficiaries under NMDFC schemes.

NMDFC has so far extended financial assistance to the tune of Rs.4513.13 crores under various income generation schemes to more than 13.93 lacs families from the target Minority communities.  The  details  of  financial  assistance  provided  under  NMDFC  schemes  are  given below:

| Year                              |   2013-14 |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 | 2017-18                |
|-----------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|------------------------|
| Amount Disbursed ( Rs. in crores) |    325.46 |     431.2 |    473.29 |    503.32 | 524.90 (as on 28.2.18) |

- (b) Community wise number of beneficiaries who have received financial assistance under schemes of NMDFC for the last three Financial Years are  given below:-

For 2017-18, information will be compiled from SCAs during 2018-19.

| Last   | Muslim   | Christian   | Sikh   | Buddhist   | Parsi   | Jain   |
|--------|----------|-------------|--------|------------|---------|--------|
| Three  | 407145   | 70374       | 2110   | 550        | 0       | 396    |
| Years  |          |             |        |            |         |        |

(c)  to  (f): As  per  the  lending  policy  of  the  National  Minorities  Development  and    Finance Corporation  (NMDFC),  the  State  Channelizing  Agencies  (SCAs)  are  required  to  furnish  their proposals in the form of Annual Action Plans (AAP) to the NMDFC at the beginning of each financial year.  All Annual Action Plans(AAP) received from SCAs are examined by NMDFC and funds are allocated to the SCAs based on their past performance in implementing NMDFC Schemes, proper utilisation of funds disbursed earlier and maintaining satisfactory repayments to the NMDFC. Funds are disbursed to the SCAs against the Government  Guarantee furnished by the  respective  State  Government  in  favour  of  the  concerned  SCA.    Further,  NMDFC  has delegated  the  sanctioning  and  disbursing  authority  to  its  SCAs  for  financing  projects  of individual  beneficiaries.  A  table  showing  the  state-wise  funds  disbursed  and  the  beneficiaries assisted during the last three years and the current financial year i.e. 2014-15, 2015-16,  2016-17 & 2017-18  is enclosed as Annexure-I.

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| National Minorities Development &Finance Corporation Annexure I Statement showing scheme-wise, state-wise disbursment of funds and coverage of beneficiaries from 2014-15 to 2017-18 ( upto 28.2.2018)   |
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