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Ministry of Finance
Last verified: 8 April 2026
A scheme for financing SC/ST and/or Women Entrepreneurs by facilitating bank loans for setting up a greenfield project enterprise in manufacturing, services, trading sector and activities allied to agriculture. The objective is to facilitate bank loans between Rs. 10 lakh and Rs. 1 Crore to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch for setting up a greenfield enterprise. In case of non-individual enterprises, at least 51% of the shareholding and controlling stake should be held by either an SC/ST or Woman entrepreneur.
Eligibility Criteria
CriterionScheme RequiresStatus
State / LocationAll states—
Udyam Classmicro, small, medium—
Owner Categorysc, st, women—
Annual TurnoverAny—
Sector & Business Typemanufacturing, services, trading, agriculture_allied, pisciculture, beekeeping, poultry, livestock, dairy, fishery, agro-processing, food processing · manufacturing, service, trading—
Business AgeNo restriction—
Area TypeAll area types—
Special ConditionsNone—
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