Government to allocate RM180m to Indian business community


KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 10 The supervision will be environment in reserve RM180 million in a form of assorted loans for a raise of internal Indian entrepreneurs, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Naiib Razak voiced yesterday.
From a RM180 million, he said, RM150 million would be indifferent by RM10 million from any of a participating 13 banks underneath a Budget 2012 SME Financing Fund, RM10 million SME soothing loans from Malaysian Industrial Development Finance (MIDF), RM5 million underneath a Business Accelerator Programme as good as RM5 million underneath a Enrichment as good as Enhancement Programme meant for blurb operation start-ups as good as microenterprises.
In addition to a RM150 million, Najib(picture)said TEKUN Nasional would set in reserve RM30 million to yield microcredit loans to immature Indian entrepreneurs underneath a Young Indian Entrepreneurs Development Scheme (SPUMI).
"Through this dedicated RM180 million fund for a Indian community, a supervision will conduct to support some-more Indian entrepreneurs to acquire loans, to begin up or expand their businesses.
"In a Malaysian Indian Economic Conference (MIEC) plans chit discussed with me recently, there have been three major issues which Indian businesses feel have been preventing them from realising their full potential.
"The first is a legacy emanate of negative credit history together with bankruptcy as good as blacklisting. The second involves a assorted challenges faced in obtaining competent as good as timely credit. And a third is for Indians to win contracts from supervision as good as government-linked companies (GLCs)," a prime apportion pronounced during a celebration cooking organised in conjunction with a MIEC in Seri Kembangan.
Najib pronounced a supervision was committed to support Indian entrepreneurs! to larg er heights, as good as for a noble purpose, a supervision was starting to residence a Indian public's priorities in conditions of blurb operation opportunities in a threefold manner.
Other than a RM180 million in loans, Najib pronounced a supervision would go to a ground as good as register Indians who have been blacklisted or done broke over a subsequent six months as good as afterwards develop a satisfactory as good as obliged resolution to a problems confronting them.
The third beginning would be to safeguard which some-more Indian companies be upskilled as good as sufficient competent to bid for contracts dished out by a supervision as good as government-linked companies (GLCs), as good as safeguard which a satisfactory series of these competent Indian contractors experience in these contracts.
He pronounced a government, via Bank Negara as good as a Credit Counselling as good as Debt Management Agency (AKPK), would partner with a MIEC to yield advisory services to those who were blacklisted or broke as good as who longed for a second possibility to achieve their aims as good as goals.
"This government-community partnership will have to organise a national roadshow in most a same approach a MyDaftar documentation beginning was implemented. The design will be to accumulate accurate fact-based feedback from Indians who have been blacklisted in assorted locations via Malaysia.
"Once you have all a contribution of this matter, you can clearly settle a extent as good as parameters of this blacklisting-bankruptcy problem. Only from here, can you develop routine measures to alleviate a incident of a people in a community affected by it.
"In this regard, you will additionally seriously engage with blurb banks so which they too can contribute to helping people transparent their negative credit history as good as therefore, get upon with their lives," he said, adding which he was happy to note which a supervision had already em! barked u pon this process.
Currently, about 100 people a MIEC had already identified as good as was already assisting to transparent their names.
To residence a lack of recognition among Indian blurb operation community upon what had to be done before to requesting for loans as good as grants, Najib pronounced a supervision had already funded a MIEC to set up a permanent secretariat to advise as good as support Indian businessmen as good as women in submitting finish as good as credible proposals to banks as good as alternative monetary institutions.
He pronounced a secretariat could work with a Business Advisory Centre underneath a Ministry of International Trade as good as Industry in providing blurb operation advisory, guidance as good as counselling.
"Our involvement will not just stop there, in six months from now, we want a full inform from a MIEC secretariat detailing how most finish applications done to banks as good as agencies, as good as how most have been successfully processed as good as approved.
"Based upon this information, a supervision will take further actions to safeguard which credit comforts have been done accessible to all Malaysians who have been creditworthy as good as who have fulfilled all a design criteria spelled out by banks as good as alternative monetary organisations," a prime apportion said.
Najib pronounced a MIEC secretariat would additionally play a purpose to support sufficient Indian contractors to upskill as good as meet all entrance standards set by government, in order for a contractors to capture some contracts catered by a supervision as good as GLCs.
"With regards to GLCs, we understand which Khazanah Nasional Bhd as good as Permodalan Nasional Bhd will work with a MIEC secretariat as good as begin to take pro-active stairs to safeguard which some-more Indian companies experience in a GLC vendor growth programmes," he said.
The government, Najib pronounced wo! uld work directly with a MIEC secretariat to know a contribution as good as figures in conditions of numbers of successful bids as good as of alternative applicable data, as good as based upon a data, a routine makers would be means to make a right routine decisions wherever necessary to safeguard which sufficient opportunities come a approach of Indian contractors.
"Related to this, we would additionally inspire a most in isolation companies which expostulate our economy to additionally take pro-active stairs to enlarge Indian appearance in their companies' tenders as good as outsourcing," he said. Bernama
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