Irked over ‘delay’ in disbursal of loans for street vendors under government scheme, chief municipal officer of a municipality in Madhya Pradesh ordered the dumping garbage outside town’s banks. The incident took place at Begumganj town of Raisen district situated about 80 kms from the district headquarters.
As soon as the banks opened on Monday, sanitation workers who had gathered outside entered the offices to dump garbage. In a few branches where they could not enter, they dumped the garbage on the gates of public and private sector banks. “For a loan of Rs 10,000 street vendors are forced to make rounds of the banks. We had a target of 1,800 beneficiaries for loan distribution under the Prime Minister Swayam Nidhi Yojana. So far, barely 30% of the target has been met. In the past, we have written to the banks, but to no avail. We are under pressure from seniors for disbursement of loans and hence we resorted to this measure. The garbage was removed as soon as bank officials assured quick disbursal of loans,” chief municipal officer of Begumganj municipality, Dheeraj Sharma told TOI.
“The garbage was dumped only for some time and was soon removed after assurance by banks. If the banks won’t disburse loans as per target, then further action would be taken,” he added.
Meanwhile bank officials, claim that they had disbursed loans as per the applications received. Those applications received late are being processed. “It was for around an hour that garbage remained on the gate of our branch before being removed. Our guards did not let the civic body workers get inside the branch. We had a target of 330 cases earlier, of which loans were disbursed to 332 cases. Later, it was revised in December and 350 more were added. Of those 350 only 27 applicants have come with their KYC documents. Unless we get the KYC documents and check the CIBIL score, how can we disburse loans?,” branch manager of SBI, Begumganj, Pratap Singh told TOI.
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