MSME credit boom signals optimism, but can banks sustain the momentum?MSMEs now account for almost a fifth of total bank credit. It is not only SCBs but also NBFCs that have expanded their credit exposure to M...
10 Nov, 2025, 12.03 PM IST
MSMEs show resilience with threefold export growth amid global challenges: ReportDespite global challenges, Indian MSME exports have surged threefold between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reaching INR 12.39 lakh crore.
24 Sep, 2025, 06.19 PM IST
India's economy set for Q4FY25 boost with increased govt. spending and capex: UBI reportIndia's economy is projected to improve in Q4FY25, driven by increased government spending, capital expenditure, and higher consumption due...
02 Mar, 2025, 11.14 AM IST
Technology upgrade of MSME sector on cardsThe government is set to introduce targeted measures to boost technology adoption in the MSME sector and overhaul the office of the develop...
06 Feb, 2025, 11.42 PM IST
Growth momentum strong; slowdown in first quarter anticipated due to elections: CEA NageswaranDue to the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran noted that GDP growth momentum stayed robust, expl...
30 Aug, 2024, 08.50 PM IST
MSMEs have growth opportunities, the challenge is in easing their access to credit: Manish Kothari, Kotak Mahindra BankThe key pivot for Kotak Mahindra Bank’s MSME lending business has come through holistic banking relationships and out-of-the-box solutions,...
05 Jul, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
MSMEs are on sustainability path but profitability focus can make the move fasterMSMEs contribute a big part to India’s manufacturing output and hence, it becomes critical they adopt energy-efficient technologies to redu...
04 Jul, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
MSMEs’ share in exports 45.56% till Sept’23: Govt to ParliamentThe share of MSME products in India's exports increased from 43.59% in FY23 to 45.03% in FY22, with a growth from 49.35% in 2020-21 to 49.7...
11 Dec, 2023, 05.50 PM IST
‘Smart recovery’ for MSMEs with GST payments crossing pre-Covid levels, Udyam registrations over 1-cr mark: Economic SurveyObserving how the government has taken multiple steps to cushion the economic impact of the pandemic on MSMEs, the Survey said that the Atm...
01 Feb, 2023, 10.54 AM IST
Over 66 lakh MSMEs registered on Udyam portal, 95% are micro enterprises, 0.5% medium firms: Economic Survey 2021-22The Economic Survey also highlighted the Champions portal as being an ICT based technology system for making the smaller units big by helpi...
31 Jan, 2022, 03.05 PM IST
Reshifting the macroeconomic focus to growth will drive economic progress: Subramanian says to ETILC MembersBranching out from the conventional consumption-based mode of thought, an approach based on private investment-led economic growth will hel...
09 Nov, 2021, 04.20 PM IST
Indian economy expected to contract by around 25 per cent in the first quarter of FY'21: ReportDespite a 40 per cent drop in manufacturing and minimal activity in the service sector, the higher expenditure by states and the central go...
25 Aug, 2020, 04.21 PM IST
Indian economy may have contracted by 25% in Q1FY21: IcraTheir contraction estimates ranged from 13.6 per cent to 25.7 per cent and are in line with those seen in other countries hit hard by the c...
25 Aug, 2020, 03.12 PM IST
View: Inject some blood into India's anaemic small businesses?MSME units in India, on the other hand, have existed practically at subsistence level for decades. To move out of this morass would require...
19 Aug, 2020, 12.12 AM IST
GDP growth at 3.1% in Q4 drags full year FY20 growth to 4.2 per centThe govt has revised growth for the first three quarters of FY20 to 5.2% in Q1, 4.4% in Q2 and 4.1% in Q3.
29 May, 2020, 10.04 PM IST
Industrial Output rises 3.8% in September but lower than AugustOutput, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), rose 3.8% in September, compared with an upward revised 4.5% in August.
11 Nov, 2017, 12.38 AM IST
Chennai floods wash out Rs 1700 crore of MSME businessThe loss figure has been arrived at after calculating the weekly loss in lost businesses for the micro and small industrial sector.
27 Dec, 2015, 12.09 PM IST