UCO Bank to Open 37 SMEs around India

UCO Bank
MUMBAI: To tap the high-growth would-be in the small and middle enterprises (SME) sector, shared sector lender UCO Bank campaign to release 37 SME hubs pan-India in FY'12 to facilitate single window clearance in place of loans.

"SMEs maintain been expected as the engine of lucrative growth. We hunger to focus on this sector and so maintain premeditated to collection up 37 hubs with the aim of will cater to the advance necessities of SMEs," UCO Bank Chairman and Managing Director Arun Kaul told PTI at this point.

The stack has already collection up two hubs -- in Delhi and Mumbai -- in place of disbursing loans to SMEs.

By 2011-end, the stack campaign to release 26 hubs in various cities, together with Delhi, Coimbatore, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Vellore, Surat, Ernakulam and Mumbai.

"We maintain formulated a diagram to collection up 16 hubs by June this time and 10 by September-end. We hunger to ensure the availability of acceptable and timely belief to this sector," he thought.

The stack wants to multiply by two its belief pour to SMEs in the subsequently 1-2 years. "Of the calculate disbursals at present, around 10 apiece cent goes en route for SME loans. We in a jiffy hunger to multiply by two the pour of belief to the sector in the subsequently 1-2- years," he thought.

The process in place of disbursal of loans would be complete in 21 days from the engagement of claim, he thought.

The stack provides working wealth and designate loans to SMEs engaged in the manufacturing process with an investment in place and machinery/equipment of beyond Rs 25 lakh up to Rs 10 crore.

It besides provides loans to enterprises engaged in the services sector with a most minuscule investment of beyond Rs 10 lakh and underneath Rs 5 crore.