• Aims at promoting entrepreneurship among women and scheduled castes and tribes through three pillars -handholding support, providing information on financing and credit guarantee
• Facilitates bank loans between Rs. 10 lakh and Rs. 1 Crore to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one-woman borrower per bank branch for setting up a greenfield enterprise – may be in manufacturing, services or the trading sector.
• In case of non-individual enterprises at least 51% of the shareholding and controlling stake should be held by either an SC/ST or woman entrepreneur”