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flag India launches ₹20,000-crore credit guarantee to revive microfinance lending after bank funding plunge.

flag India launched a ₹20,000-crore credit guarantee scheme for microfinance institutions to counter a 70% drop in bank funding, aiming to restore lending to underserved borrowers. flag The scheme, managed by the NCGTC, offers partial guarantees of 70% to 80% based on MFI size, caps loan rates at benchmark rates plus 2 percentage points, and includes a one-year moratorium and three-year tenure. flag It mandates minimum allocations to small and mid-sized MFIs, limits exposure to 20% of assets under management, and supports responsible lending. flag The move follows improved asset quality, with overdue loans falling to 1.6%, and seeks to reverse a 7.3% decline in the sector’s ₹3.15 lakh crore portfolio.

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