Capital infusion in ECGC

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved contribution of Grant-in-Aid (Corpus) of Rs1,040crore to National Export Insurance Account Trust (NEIA).

The Corpus is to be utilised during three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20. 

 

An amount of Rs440crore has already been received for the year 2017-18.  Rs300crore each will be given to NEIA for the years 2018-19 and 2019-20. The Corpus would strengthen NEIA to support project exports from the country that are of strategic and national importance.

 

On the other hand the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the capital infusion of Rs2000crore for strengthening of  Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC).  The amount would be infused in the three financial years i.e. Rs50crore in 2017-18, Rs1450crore in the year 2018-19 and Rs500crore for 2019-20.

 

The infusion would enhance insurance coverage to MSME exports and strengthen India’s exports to emerging and challenging markets like Africa, CIS and Latin American countries.  With enhanced capital, ECGC’s underwriting capacity and risk to capital ratio will improve considerably.  With a stronger underwriting capacity, ECGC will be in a better position to support Indian exporters to tap new and unexplored markets.

 

Increased capital infusion will help ECGC to diversify its product portfolio and provide cost effective credit insurance helping exporters to gain a stronger foothold in the difficult markets.  Covers from ECGC will help in improving competitive position of India exporters in International markets.  More than 85% of customers benefitted by ECGC’s covers are MSMEs. 

 

ECGC covers exports to around 200 countries in the world.

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