Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
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Credit Schemes for Fisherman

Posted On: 03 DEC 2024 6:09PM by PIB Delhi

In the year 2018-19, Government of India extended the facility of the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) to the fish farmers and fishers to help them to meet their working capital requirements. Reserve Bank of India, vide circular dated 04.02.2019 issued the guidelines for issuance of KCC for fisheries. Till date (08.11.2024), a total of 4,39,493 KCCs have been issued to fishers and fish farmers with a credit amount of Rs. 2810.00 crore. The total budgetary allocation and disbursement towards the KCC credit/loan (including the KCC for fisheries sector), since the year 2014-15, as reported by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, since 2014 is at Annexure-I.

Further, the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, Government of India has reported that a total credit/loan of Rs.57864.40 crore has been provided to the fisheries sector over the last three financial years, i.e., 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24, including the KCC fishery sector’s working capital loan. The State/UT-wise details of the fisheries sector’s credit/loan for the last 3 years furnished at Annexure-II.  The DFS has also reported that prior to the financial year 2021-2022 no separate data had been captured for the fisheries sector.

 

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Annexure-I

 

 

        Credit/loan for the overall KCCs, including the KCC for Fisheries Sector.      

                   (Rs. in Crore)

Sr. No.

Year

Budget Allocation

Disbursement of Funds

1

2014-15

6000

6000

2

2015-16

13000

13000

3

2016-17

13397.13

13397.13

4

2017-18

15000

13045.72

5

2018-19

15000

11495.67

6

2019-20

18000

16218.75

7

2020-21

21175

17789.72

8

2021-22

19468.31

21476.93

9

2022-23

19500

17997.88

10

2023-24

23000

14251.92

 

 

 

Annexure-II

 

State/UT-wise credit/loan disbursement to the Fisheries Sector, including the KCC fishery sector for the last three years

(Rs. in Crore)

Sr.No

Name of the State/UT

FY:2021 - 2022

FY: 2022 - 2023

FY: 2023 - 2024

Total

1

DELHI

4.77

7.32

9.58

21.67

2

HARYANA

579.67

768.47

849.99

2198.13

3

HIMACHAL PRADESH

93.67

128.10

163.67

385.44

4

JAMMU and KASHMIR

31.05

41.29

73.76

146.10

5

PUNJAB

858.61

1314.61

1502.21

3675.43

6

RAJASTHAN

235.00

356.51

586.80

1178.31

7

CHANDIGARH UT

0.73

1.53

0.82

3.08

8

LADAKH

11.17

15.54

19.21

45.92

9

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

1.47

2.77

9.58

13.82

10

ASSAM

80.48

83.56

108.52

272.56

11

MANIPUR

25.50

30.95

15.12

71.57

12

MEGHALAYA

0.86

1.83

2.06

4.75

13

MIZORAM

11.23

21.14

24.69

57.06

14

NAGALAND

0.58

4.13

2.61

7.32

15

SIKKIM

0.73

0.71

3.19

4.63

16

TRIPURA

55.80

36.54

51.54

143.88

17

A and N ISLAND

26.95

28.65

43.12

98.72

18

BIHAR

248.90

287.24

396.60

932.74

19

JHARKHAND

109.62

154.45

189.56

453.63

20

ODISHA

405.62

502.66

715.11

1623.39

21

WEST BENGAL

856.47

968.38

1041.65

2866.50

22

CHHATTISGARH

70.61

103.61

92.96

267.18

23

MADHYA PRADESH

244.38

294.34

309.95

848.67

24

UTTARAKHAND

34.45

45.10

68.12

147.67

25

UTTAR PRADESH

347.80

444.99

515.48

1308.27

26

GOA

50.46

70.83

116.83

238.12

27

GUJARAT

403.41

778.51

1072.94

2254.86

28

MAHARASHTRA

576.23

637.27

1203.24

2416.74

29

D and N HAVELI UT

0.10

0.24

0.16

0.50

30

DAMAN and DIU UT

30.98

45.48

53.91

130.37

31

ANDHRA PRADESH

2088.39

3,103.02

4,262.77

9454.18

32

TELANGANA

739.79

1211.37

1800.03

3751.19

33

KARNATAKA

772.30

1017.77

1396.83

3186.90

34

KERALA

1599.15

2,530.57

2866.12

6995.84

35

PUDUCHERRY

24.28

40.43

87.62

152.33

36

TAMILNADU

3116.04

4,390.85

4993.78

12500.67

37

LAKSHADWEEP UT

0.33

3.79

2.14

6.26

 

Total

13,737.59

19,474.54

24,652.27

57,864.40

 

This information was given by the Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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