A USD 300 million loan agreement has been signed by the largest lender of nation, State Bank of India and German development bank KfW to support rural and micro-enterprise lending in the country.
SBI’s managing director V G Kannan said, “We are glad that KfW has chosen us as its partner to foster a focused growth in agriculture sector where we are already a market leader with more than 20 percent of the market share.”
The Bank said that with a focus on agricultural and micro enterprise loans, the facility is designed to further strengthen and extend SBI’s priority sector lending activities.