JAMMU: Rahul Sahai Chair PHDCCI Jammu along with Ashish Jain, Raj Dua Co Chairs of PHDCCI Jammu Chapter attended and deliberated at town hall meeting organised by RBI for existing and prospective entrepreneurs of district Reasi at ITC Welcome Hotel Katra.

Meeting was primarily on the topic of funding problems of Msme's and a detailed presentation on Treds and SIDBI'S Schemes were shown by the respective Heads of the agencies.

Rahul Sahai pointed out that in Treds platform more and more buyers has to be enrolled because of which this scheme is not taking flight in J&k he said that Treds is very good platform for MSMEs who are registered with Udyam and MSMEs can take benefit of bill discounting through this platform and problem of blocking of funds could be resolved through this.

Rahul Sahai also deliberated with senior Officers of RBI J&K & Ladakh and apprised them about funding problems to MSMEs especially shared that risk taking capacity should be enhanced at manager level of all Bank branches and cases should be disposed in a time bound manner to improve funding to MSMEs.

Rahul Sahai also shared and applauded the house about the upcoming opportunities regarding lithium based industry in District Reasi where senior officials from industry department Arun Manhas Director Industries Jammu and G Velladurai MSME DFO Jammu was present and talked about the subject.

Sahai shared with all the officers that lithium is going to be the game changer in District Reasi and industry department and msmes Department should encourage Msme's to grab opportunities related to lithium products and should set up related industry .

After Address of Rahul Sahai, Kamal Patnaik Regional Director Reserve Bank of India Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh asked the heads of various banks prominently PNB and SBI to speak on the issues raised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and industry Jammu chapter and heads of SBI and PNB applauded the house that they are working on risk taking capacities and they themselves monitor the accounts which comes to their knowledge and the guide lower staff to clear the cases in a time bound manner and said any one having any problem can visit us any time.

Meeting was attended by 100 plus MSMEs of Reasi district with senior officials present who were Kamal Patnaik Regional Director Reserve Bank of India Jammu Kashmir & ladakh, Sandeep Mittal GM RBI, Arun Kumar Manas Director Industry Jammu, G Velladurai MSME DFO Jammu, Anil Sharma DGM SIDBI, Ravindra Kumar Gupta DGM SBI and DGM of PNB and heads of various organisations were present in the meeting.