Tribune News Service
Dharamsala, March 8
Kangra ADC Saurabh Jassal instructed the staff of the Animal Husbandry Department to inspire farmers to get crop and animal insurance coverage at a gathering with district-level bankers advisory and coordination committee .
Jassal mentioned officers of the Agriculture Department ought to take steps to ascertain small processing vegetation on the village stage for bettering the financial situation of the farmers. He directed all banks to settle the pending agricultural loans. He additionally instructed officers to take rapid motion on the purposes obtained for organising micro, small and medium industries, as per eligibility, in order that young entrepreneurs may arrange industries.
District supervisor of a number one financial institution, Kuldeep Kumar Kaushal, make clear the funds allotted to all banks for small, medium and small enterprises as per the instructions of Government of India.
In the assembly, Punjab National Bank Sub-Divisional Head Rakesh Chand Katoch mentioned the financial institution had all the time been working within the curiosity of farmers. He mentioned in the course of the earlier monetary 12 months, until the tip of the December 2023, loans amounting to Rs 93.370 crore had been distributed within the agriculture sector, Rs 190.480 crore within the micro, medium and small enterprises sector and Rs 22.847 crore in different precedence sectors. “Continuous growth has been recorded under the Kisan Credit Card Scheme in the district and a total of 28,730 cards had been issued by the end of December 2023. Instructions have also been issued to branches of all banks operating in the district to ensure issuance of credit cards to the remaining farmers,” he mentioned.
The progress made beneath the poverty alleviation schemes of the federal government being applied by all of the banks within the district and targets and achievements beneath the annual plan until December 2023 had been additionally reviewed in the course of the assembly.
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