More Than 41 Lakh Women Self Help Groups Provided Credit By December 2013

More than 41 lakh Women Self Help Groups (SHG’s) have been provided credit at the end of December 2013. Presenting the Interim Budget in the LokSabha today, the Union Finance Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram said that ten years ago, only 9,71,182 women SHG’s had been credit linked to banks. At the end of December 2013, 41,16,000 women SHG’s have been provided credit and the outstanding amount of credit was Rs 36,893 crore.