Federal govt to focus on SME Sector for achieving sustainable development: Shaukat Tarin

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin held a meeting with the Minister for Industries and Production Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar at the Finance Division on Thursday to discuss the features of a new Credit Scheme for the SME Sector.

The Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Finance & Revenue Dr. Waqar Masood was also present during the meeting.

The Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Reza Baqir joined the meeting through video link.

The governor SBP briefed the finance minister on the proposal for the provision of funds for the small businesses (without collateral) for a tenure up to three years through the network of Commercial banks.

Reza Baqir said that the banks will design innovative products to reach out to the smaller businesses whereas the government will provide risk-sharing facility to the banks.

The governor also shared that at present, there are around 100,000 small businesses availing the SME Credit facilities provided by the commercial banks.

The new scheme will accelerate the credit uptake ratio of the smaller businesses up to 30% approximately during three years.

The finance minister lauded the scheme and affirmed to provide the seed money for the scheme.

Shaukat Tarin said that the provision of microcredit would create employment opportunities at the local level and in turn, enhance the GDP growth and will help in achieving sustainable and robust economic growth.

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