The minister said that loans ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 10 lakh are sanctioned to needy persons on the portal. The corporation aims to disburse loans of more than Rs 200 crore to more than 12,000 people. From today, for the financial year 2023-24, people belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, safai karmacharis, specially abled, and other backward classes can apply for loans online, he said.
Jully said that applying online through the portal will bring transparency. In the era of Information Technology, the deprived and needy sections are getting pensions, scholarships, etc, directly in their accounts. The state government is giving social security pensions to about 94 lakh pensioners and the pension is being approved in just two minutes through an online process.
