Participants at the Stand Up India clinic cum awareness programme held at tourist lodge, Conference hall, Dimapur on December 29. (Photo Courtesy/CAN Youth)
Dimapur, December 29 (MExN): Stand Up India Clinic cum awareness programme was organized by CAN Youth for start up and aspiring entrepreneurs on December 29 at Tourist Lodge Dimapur, Conference Hall. It was sponsored by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
The programme started with a welcome note by Faihamti Longmailai, Project Officer, CAN Youth followed by a brief introduction on the purpose of stand up India Clinic by Jenpu Rongmei, Chief Functionary, CAN Youth.
CAN Youth in a press release stated that Albert Gangte, Manager, SIDBI Dimapur, Bhairab Kalita, LDM SBI and representatives from HDFC Bank Yerimo also attended the programme and motivated all the participants present in the programme to avail the loan through online under Stand up India so that it can help on tracking those entrepreneurs whose loan got pending. Albert Gangte also clarifies that stand up India is not a grant but a loan which is not like normal loan with higher rate of interest, Stand up India is to help genuine entrepreneurs who could not avail loan despite their effort with banks. He also demonstrated how to apply online for the loan process.
There was a group discussion between the participants and banks officials, some of the questions raised by the participants were whether they can avail loan on any consultancy services? How much time does it take to process the loan? One of the entrepreneur express the problems faced by her and how she run from bank to bank for loan but could not avail it and do not get support from bank. The time was also given to participants to interact one to one with bank Officials.
Some of the entrepreneurs lodged a loan application under Stand Up India on the spot to process the loans. All together 57 participants were enrolled at the programme.
