SCHEME FOR ASSISTANCE TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SECTOR 
 

MAJOR PARAMETERS

A. ELIGIBILITY
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The Unit and its promoters

Preference will be given to units established by persons with adequate experience, expertise and exposure. The determination of the above quality will be guided by the track record of the promoters, their group affiliations, the management team, academic/professional qualification and work experience in software development and marketing, infrastructure available etc.

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The Services

Services coming under the following broad categories can be considered for the financing: -

- Software services including staffing and programming services.
- Project services including custom made software development, systems solution and integration, maintenance of software etc.
- Software products and packages.
- Information Technology related services.

The following items could be considered while quantifying the requirement of financial assistance.

- expenses for order canvassing and execution
- expenses on manpower offering the services
- expenses on purchase of software packages/tools


B. METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSMENTS OF FINANCIAL NEEDS

.Every loan proposal is to be assessed based on the following documents: -

i) Operating statement in Form-A
ii) Balance sheet in Form-B
iii) Cash budget in Form-C
iv) Statement of contract economic in Form-D
v) Project report and Business plan clearly spelling out:-
- the long term and short term goal of the unit
- the proposed strategies for development and marketing of software
- the stagewise financial outlay and revenue/cost projections
- the basis on which the requirement is fixed.

C. UPPER LIMIT OF ASSISTANCE

. Loans can be given upto Rs.500 lakhs for corporate sector and upto Rs.200 lakhs for other sectors.The loan amount has to be restricted to 2/3rd of the projected requirements.

D. MINIMUM PROMOTER'S CONTRIBUTION

33 Percent of the requirement estimated.

E. DEBT EQUITY RATIO

.Maximum of 2:1


F . MAXIMUM REPAYMENT PERIOD

Upto six years including a gestation period of upto one year for starting the repayment of the principal amount. The repayment period can be re-fixed based on the annual review of the account.

G. SECURITY FOR THE LOAN

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1. Primary Security:

A charge on the existing assets of the unit and primary charge on assets acquired with the financial assistance of the corporation

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2. Collateral Security

Worth at least 100% of the limit of accommodation sanctioned if the unit is in own premises Relaxation in requirements of collateral security can be done based on the track record and quality of promoters and the unit.

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3. Personal Guaranty

Personal Guaranty of all promoter (s), shareholders having more the 5 percent share in the equity and co-obligants (if any)
 

H. SANCTIONING AUTHORITY

Managing Director for all assistance under this scheme, irrespective of amount involved. All other condition prescribed for sanction by the corporation would also be applicable.

 
 
   Scheme
.Special Schemes
.Scheme For Existing Well Run Profit Making Enterprises
.Normal Term Loan Scheme