The Economic Survey 2017-18 tabled in the Parliament on Monday delivered an unsurprising, but troubling figure. The amount of credit or loans disbursed by banks amounted to Rs 26,041 billion as on November 2017, but 82.6% of this was pocketed by large enterprises. For millions of SMEs in the country, banks only lent out 17.4 % of the total credit.

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