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No. OF SAVINGS LINKED SHGs
The number of savings linked SHGs
has shown a huge jump of 8.53% during the year. The increase is highest
during this decade. With the expanding coverage of SHG-Bank Linkage
Programme in Eastern and North Eastern Regions and other priority States
during the last three years, there has been perceptible correction in the
Southern bias of the Programme (Figure 4.2). Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan
and West Bengal account for 63% of the net addition of SHGs during the
year. The share of Southern Region in terms of number of SHGs declined
to 43.4% in 2016-17 from almost half (48.3%) in 2014-15. There was a
slight decline in the percentage share of SHGs in Southern Region as well as
Central Region during 2016-17 over the previous year in spite of an absolute
rise in number of SHGs. Major States like Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat,
Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Rajasthan
have recorded higher growth rate. The State-wise details of number of SHGs
are given in Statement II-A.
4.3
Figure 4.1
PROGRESS OF SHG-BLP DURING PAST THREE YEARS
(No. of SHGs in Lakh, Amount in
r
'
000 crore)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
No. of SHGs
with savings
Linkage
No. of SHGs
with loan
outstanding
Amount
of loan
outstanding
Amount
of savings
outstanding
No. of SHGs
disbursed with
loan
Amount of loan
disbursed
2014-15
2014-15
2015-16
2015-16
2016-17
2016-17
76.97
11.06
16.26
27.58
44.68
51.55
79.03
13.69
18.32
37.29
46.73
57.12
85.77
16.11
18.98
38.78
48.48
61.58
