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Govt tweaks AIF norms to boost startups

Alternate Investment Funds will now have to invest at least twice the amount they receive from a SIDBI-operated Rs 10,000 crore fund in start-ups, giving a boost to entrepreneurs. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi.




NEW DELHI:
Last year, the government had approved the proposal to establish a Fund of Funds for Start-ups (FFS) with a total corpus of Rs 10,000 crore. “Alternate investment funds supported by FFS shall invest at least twice the amount of contribution received from FFS in start-ups...,” an official statement said. It was also decided that operating expenses for carrying out due diligence, legal and technical appraisal, would be met out of the FFS to the extent of 0.5 per cent of the commitments made to AIFs and outstanding.

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MIG interest subsidy scheme from Jan 1

The Centre’s credit-linked interest subsidy scheme for housing loans taken by people in mid-income groups has been made effective from January 1 under which EMIs will go down by over Rs 2,000 per month. PM Narendra Modi had on December 31 last year announced Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme for Middle Income Groups -- CLSS(MIG).

The Goan Network
Published Mar 23, 2017, 2:33 PM IST
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PTI  NEW DELHI  Under it, interest subsidy of 4% on housing loans of up to Rs 9 lakh for those with an income of Rs 12 lakh per year and of 3% on housing loans of up to Rs 12 lakh for those having an income of Rs 18 lakh per year will be given.   At an event where ‘Operational Guidelines for CLSS (MIG)’ were released, National Housing Bank MD and CEO Sriram Kalyanaraman said EMIs for middle income group beneficiaries will lower the repayment burden by…

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