Source: Business Standard.
Original article available here.
NEW DELHI, June 11 – “This is our pilot project. We are in the process of it and the MoU is soon to be signed,” Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance said here today.
The company will launch the project in Andhra Pradesh first.
“As much as 15 percent of the customers of SKS are already having handsets. We expect 75 percent of our customers to go for these cheap mobiles,” SKS chief operating officer M R Rao said.
The company has also approached the Reserve Bank for mobile banking, on which there are regulatory constraints, he said while announcing the performance of the company in the last fiscal.
The NBFC [non-banking finance company] also has plans to venture into newer areas of microfinance and is planning to provide non-financial services like food, consumer durables, health, disaster management to the poor.
He said the company has extended unsecured loans worth INR 1,616 crore among 1.9 million consumers during 2007-08.
“Our fast-paced inclusive growth this year has been powered by a third round of equity infusion worth INR 147 crore in January and INR 1,267 crore raised against that as debt by partnering with leading banks of India,” Akula said.
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