Renaming of MUDRA Bank

The Union Cabinet has approved the conversion of MUDRA Ltd into MUDRA (SIDBI) Bank as, a wholly owned subsidiary of SIDBI to carry out the following functions:

i) Refinance operations,

ii) Support services with focus on portal management, data analysis etc,

iii) Any activity entrusted/advised by Government of India

MUDRA Ltd, has been functional since April 8, 2015. It has written to Reserve Bank of India for conveying concurrence for the conversion of the Company to MUDRA (SIDBI) Bank Ltd.

This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.