Awareness camp on PMFME scheme held at Shopian
SHOPIAN, JULY 10: The
Department of Horticulture, Planning & Marketing, Shopian today organized
an awareness programme on the Prime Minister's Formalization of Micro Food
Processing Enterprises (PMFME) scheme at Old Fruit Mandi Arhama Shopian.
A good gathering of
potential individual entrepreneurs and women SHGs of the district participated
in the event.
Area Marketing Officer
Shopian /DNO along with his field staff, LDM, CFL and DRP attended the Program.
Area Marketing Officer
(AMO) Shopian/ District Nodal officer (DNO) addressed the gathering and presented
an overview and potential scope of the scheme in the district.
The scheme offers 35%
credit linked capital subsidy with a maximum ceiling of Rs. 10 lakhs and Rs.
40,000/ seed capital per member for SHGs and Producer Cooperatives with a
support for Branding and Marketing and hand holding to the units to be
established under the scheme, he said.
AMO informed that till
date, out of 52 cases of Food Processing Units sanctioned, 32 units have been
established and are running successfully in the District. Expressing the
desire, 10 No. of online registration of potential entrepreneurs was done on
spot while 20 offline registrations were also done during the program.
Lead District Manager
(LDM) including other Bank Officials also deliberated in detail about the
procedures to be followed while the cases are being sanctioned by the Banks.
District Resource Person
(DRP), PMFME scheme Shopian shared the entire registration and documentation
process with the participants.