Only 3% of India’s 62 million business owners have SME insurance: ICICI Lombard’s Anand SinghiOur focus on end-to-end risk management for MSMEs through various tailored digital solutions makes us different, says Anand Singhi, Chief o...
28 Jun, 2024, 11.55 AM 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
Why MSME Samadhaan scheme is not working, and how to fix itUnder the Samadhaan scheme, MSME facilitation councils in all states have been given the mandate to adjudicate these cases. These councils ...
03 Dec, 2021, 10.39 AM IST
Budget Session: Key issues addressed in the ParliamentThe finance ministry on Monday said that the financial health of state-run lenders has improved significantly on account of timely recapita...
09 Mar, 2021, 02.00 PM IST
TReDs was touted as the tool to tackle delayed payments to MSMEs. Did it succeed?TReDS was supposed to be a game changer-a platform that could sort out the issue of delayed payments for MSMEs. Almost five years later, th...
29 Jan, 2021, 08.44 PM IST
Did the Government’s Rs 3 lakh crore collateral-free loan ECLG scheme do enough to prop up the MSME sector?The way the Government’s mega stimulus eventually panned out for MSMEs, it offers interesting takeaways.
07 Nov, 2020, 09.27 AM IST
The big owe: How do you fix Rs 5-lakh crore in dues? Strengthen TReDSTo tackle the humongous level of unpaid dues, the Trade Receivable Discounting System (TReDS), an online bill discounting platform, was mea...
30 Jun, 2020, 01.07 PM IST
Will provide 15% equity infusion in MSMEs that want to tap the capital market: Nitin GadkariThere are many MSMEs with good growth potential and the Government now wants to nurture them and help them list on the bourses through the ...
26 Jun, 2020, 11.29 AM IST
'One-time cash transfer, basic food supplies for 3 months can help tackle labour migration problem'It said distributing money through direct benefit transfer (DBT) and food via the PDS will adversely impact the finances of state governmen...
11 Jun, 2020, 05.49 PM IST
New Motor Vehicles Act is not here to raise revenue, but to save lives: Nitin GadkariGadkari said state governments have the power to bring down the steep vehicle fines.
12 Sep, 2019, 11.57 AM IST
Congress regime to replace BJP's scheme with ‘Jan Adhikar’ in MPKamal Nath govt to roll out the people outreach programme on July 9.
04 Jul, 2019, 11.59 PM IST
When a Union Minister could not get banks to lend to small businessesThere are several schemes to help the MSME sector access finance from institutional sources, but the banks often shy from lending or make t...
20 Feb, 2019, 10.33 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi's thinking in ICU: Union minister Giriraj SinghThe Congress vice president in a tweet last week said the economy was in the ICU, and added that "Dr Jaitley's" medicines were ineffective.
30 Oct, 2017, 08.00 PM IST
Not ruling out joint sitting if all options on land bill fail: Venkaiah Naidu"Of course, there's a provision in the Constitution for a joint sitting, but first of all I have to exhaust the discussion in the Rajya Sab...
26 Mar, 2015, 11.39 AM IST