Kisan Credit Card Scheme for Fisheries- Chief Minister Fishermen Prosperity Scheme

The scheme aims to provide short-term loans for fisheries. It offers zero-percent interest working capital to the fish farmers through cooperative banks.

State Cash

States / UT: Madhya Pradesh

Nodal department: Fisheries Department

Scheme for: Individual

Scheme profile

Categories: Agriculture,Rural & Environment, Banking,Financial Services and Insurance

Sub-categories: Fishing and hunting, Loan

Target beneficiaries: Individual

Tags: Credit Card, Loan, Fishermen, Fish Farmer

Details

The “Kisan Credit Card Scheme for Fisheries” is a component scheme under the "Chief Minister Fishermen Prosperity Scheme" launched by the Fisheries Welfare and Fisheries Development Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh. Under this scheme, working capital is provided at a zero percent interest rate through cooperative banks to the fish farmers engaged in fisheries operations. The scheme offers interest subvention to ensure affordable credit for beneficiaries and reduce their financial burden.

Benefits

  • - Short-term working capital loans for fisheries activities under the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) facility
  • Fish farmers receive interest subvention, enabling access to zero-percent interest loans through cooperative banks
  • The loan amount is determined as per bank norms and scheme provisions, based on the financial requirement of the fish farmer
  • Short-term working capital loans for fisheries activities under the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) facility.
  • Fish farmers receive interest subvention, enabling access to zero-percent interest loans through cooperative banks.
  • The loan amount is determined as per bank norms and scheme provisions, based on the financial requirement of the fish farmer.

Eligibility

  1. The applicant must be a landholding farmer, marginal farmer, small farmer, fish farmer, livestock owner, BPL beneficiary, unorganized worker card holder, or registered worker.
  2. The applicant must be engaged in fisheries activities.

Exclusions


Application Process

Offline

Step 1: The interested applicant should visit (during office hours) the District Fisheries Office and request a hard copy of the prescribed format of the application form from the staff exclusively entrusted to issue and collect filled-in applications.
Step 2: In the application form, fill in all the mandatory fields, and attach copies of all the mandatory documents (self-attested, if required).
Step 3: Submit the duly filled and signed application form along with the documents to the District Fisheries Office.

Documents Required

No document list is available for this scheme yet.

References

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Documents Required for Government Schemes

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