Challenges That SMEs Face in Getting Collateral Free Business Loans

India is called one of the fastest developing economies of the world and a great share behind this growth goes to the SMEs. In India, there are around 42.50 million registered & non registered SMEs (with investments less than 50 million) from whom the country is getting around ]24.63% of Service sector GDP and 6.11% of the manufacturing GDP. While it is said that SMEs are driving the nation and giving employment to thousands of people, but the biggest challenge they all face in running operations is of finances. From a long time, SMEs of India are hit by poor access to funds/ business loans and the current COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the market situations. Most of the small and medium enterprises like a small restaurants, grocery stores, mobile recharge shop, garments tailor, etc. need funds for sourcing stocks, paying wages, buying raw material and meeting several other working capital requirements. But they don’t get MSME & SME loans provider easily and to overcome thi...