46 XX | Enlightener Series | A. Public Sector Schemes

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About the scheme…
Doctor’s Choice was launched by Canara Bank as an MSME loan scheme recognizing various credit needs of Registered Medical Practitioners, with special interest concessions for women entrepreneurs, to assist them in establishing and expanding their reach, thereby enabling them to serve the needy in a better way. In the current times of pandemic, doctors and the healthcare sector have indeed emerged as the most essential and indispensable sector in the social fabric worldwide!

How is it being implemented?

Under Doctor’s Choice Scheme, direct financial assistance is given to

Qualified Registered Medical Practitioners in any branch of medical sciences like Allopathy, Dental, Ayurvedic, Unani, and Homeopathy, with special interest concessions for women entrepreneurs;

to meet their capital expenditures on working capital expenses right from setting up a clinic, nursing home, hospital, etc. to associate business activities like setting up x-ray labs, pathology labs, physiotherapy centres, in-house medical stores etc. to allied business requirements like the purchase of equipment, vehicles, ambulance, computer accessories, setting up of quarters for resident doctors etc.

What’s on offer?
I. Product:

Term loans of up to ₹5 Crores
Working capital facility equal to 20% of maximum sanction limit up to a ceiling of ₹50 Lakhs

II. Purpose:

Fixed asset acquisition
Working capital requirements
For more details around this, please refer here

III. Borrower Type

Individuals, Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Companies, Trust

IV. Security or Collateral or Guarantee or Insurance

Security: First charge or hypothecation over assets created out of the Bank’s finance
Collateral:
- Nil for loans up to ₹100 Lakhs that are eligible to be covered under Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE)
- For the rest, suitable security in the form of immovable property or approved securities not less than 100% of the loan amount shall be insisted
  - Agriculture land, immovable property(ies) standing in the name of Hindu Undivided Family who is/are proprietor/partner(s) in the borrowing unit, properties which are tenanted, properties in the name of the directors & their close relatives in the case the borrower is a Public Limited Company will not be taken as security
For information around the requirement of guarantee or insurance, please contact Canara Bank via the means mentioned below

V. Interest Rate

Repo Linked Lending rate (RLLR) + Credit Risk Premium (CRP) – Interest concession of 0.5% for women entrepreneurs – 0.25% for accounts covered under CGTSME
- Interest concessions are subject to the ultimate interest rate not falling below the prevalent RLLR
Canara Bank’s RLLR w.e.f December 7, 2022 is 8.8%
Hence for women entrepreneurs, the interest rate is likely to range between the following based on the loan product, their risk assessment and ticket size of the loan
- Term loan – 9.60% – 10.35%
- Working capital facility – 9.10% – 10.10%

VI. Processing fee

For loans up to ₹5 Lakhs: nil
For loans above ₹5 Lakhs given as:
- Term loans – 75% of normal charges. Likely to be around 0.5 – 1.0%, subject to a minimum of Rs. 250-500
- Working capital facility – as per extant guidelines. Likely to be around 0.35 – 0.50%, subject to a minimum of Rs. 250-550
For more details around the same, please contact Canara Bank via the means mentioned below

VII. Margin money requirement

For loans up to ₹25,000: nil
For loans above ₹25,000:
- Term loan for construction of business premises including resident doctors’ quarters -25%
- Term Loan for equipment -20%
- Working capital-20%
For more details around the same, please contact Canara Bank via the means mentioned below

VIII. Tenure, Repayments & Pre-Closures

For term loan: repayment tenure up to a maximum of 7 years
For working capital facility: tenability for 2 years subject to annual renewal
For information around pre-closures, prepayment, and their related charges etc., please contact Canara Bank via the means mentioned below

IX. Turnaround Time

15 – 45 days depending on loan ticket size and whether the business is classified as a Micro-Enterprise, Small-Enterprise or Medium-Enterprise.

Note that the definition of Micro-Enterprise or Small-Enterprise or Medium-Enterprise per MSMED Act has been changed since July 1, 2020. Please click here for concise details

Interested? Read ahead to check your eligibility….

I. Are you a qualified Registered Medical Practitioners in any branch of medical sciences like Allopathy, Dental, Ayurvedic, Unani, and Homeopathy; and have practical experience of carrying on the business?

If your answers to the previous questions are an emphatic YES, you are all set to avail the loan under Doctor’s Choice Scheme!

So…how big is this scheme and what has been done so far?

I. Details for Canara Bank’s Doctors Choice Scheme is not available in the public domain

So, now, how should you go about it?

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I. For submitting application: