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Last updated: 05 Dec, 2018  

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SME Times News Bureau | 05 Dec, 2018

The recent measures taken by RBI have improved the liquidity situation, but credit flow is still tight; while easing liquidity further will definitely help credit, more complementary steps are required to improve credit delivery, said industry body FICCI.

"There is an urgent need to improve the credit flow to the real economy. GDP growth is already showing signs of slowing down. With crude oil prices down, we need to take further measures for the revival of animal spirits in the economy and give more momentum to it," said Rashesh Shah, President, FICCI.

"Credit availability will certainly give more confidence. RBI should cut CRR and interest rate, and release more liquidity, along with other supporting measures like reduction in the risk weightage for MSME and affordable housing loans to enhance credit flow," he added.

FICCI's assessment shows that the flow of funds to the industry, especially MSMEs, construction, real estate and the housing sector, has been adversely affected by the cost of credit going up.

The borrowing rates for companies through instruments such as short-term commercial paper also continue to remain high.

In the latest Business Confidence Survey of FICCI, the proportion of respondents citing the cost of credit and availability of credit as a major constraining factor has gone up to 60 per cent and 48 per cent respectively.

This represents a significant jump over 41 per cent and 24 per cent of the respondents who had reported likewise in the previous survey.

Given this backdrop, there is a need for immediate steps to ensure that the flow of credit is not curtailed to productive sectors of the economy, especially the MSME and housing, which are also key generators of employment.

Adoption of measures, including a cut in the repo rate, lowering of CRR and modulation of risk weightage for MSME and affordable housing loans will help in improving the credit flow to these sectors.

Additionally, the RBI could facilitate large scale securitisation of NBFC assets so that the NBFC sector can continue to meaningfully complement the banks as a source of long-term funds.

Further, withholding tax on ECBs can also be done away with as has been done for Masala Bonds as this would also support the flow of funds in the economy, he added.

 
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Restricted credit flow and high cost of credit
Bhagawath Prasad | Wed Dec 5 17:32:49 2018
Sir , It's a well narrated article , hopefully our government comesup with some solution, I have been personally experiencing the new riders and rules that are choking credit-flow , secondly high cost borrowings are detrimental to MSME growth , Currently , those dependent on telecom , real-estat-construction and retail are facing many problems withs new compliances and restricted cash-flows.I am on hope that government relaxes these compliances to MSMEs ,


 
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