The initiative is to help ordinary people who are being exploited by private financiers charging exorbitant interest rates for loans, state Minister for Co-Operation and Tourism.
The Kerala government will be launching an ambitious micro-finance programme in the co-operative sector to help people, who were exploited by private financiers charging exorbitant interest rates for loans.
The initiative is to help ordinary people who are being exploited by private financiers charging exorbitant interest rates for loans, state Minister for Co-Operation and Tourism, Kadakampally Surendran said in the Assembly today.
Co-operative banks would launch the proposed scheme, titled 'Muttathe Mulla', with the support of women neighbourhood network - 'Kudumbashree,' he said.
"The government is taking steps to regulate loan sharks through a joint initiative of cooperative banks and Kudumbashree," Surendran said.
Under the initiative, loans would be provided at lower interest rates, he said.
Cooperative banks would give away micro-finance loans to 'Kudumbashree' at an interest rate of seven percent, which members of the neighbourhood network can avail at an interest rate of 12 percent.
Many private money lenders were charging 37-72 percent interest for micro-finance loans, the minister pointed out.
The first phase would be launched in northern Palakkad district on June 29, he added.