State Bank of India

According to latest reports, in Odisha SBI, a public sector lender had advanced home loans of worth Rs 400 cr for year 2014 – 2015 and now country’s largest public sector lender SBI (State Bank of India) has set a target to extend Rs 500 cr worth home loans in Odisha for the year 2015 – 2016.

As per the statement of the BVG Reddy, Chief General Manager of State Bank of India, Bhubaneswar circle, “At the end of November 2015, our bank has already extended Rs 280 crore home loans and at this point of time we are expecting the closer with Rs 500 crore advances to the sector. This public sector lender had advanced a home loan of worth Rs 400 crore in the year 2014 – 2015 however; the NPA rate for the same sector was about one to two per cent. State Bank of India has extended its finance portfolio with tune of Rs 3325 crore which comes under home loan portfolio on the current date.

According to reports, SBI is all set to organize its own property expo “Utsav -2015”on date December 11 to 13 at Bhubaneswar. In present, about 40 real estate developers and builders which are affiliated to CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India), NAREDCO (National Real Estate Development Council), Real Estate Developers Association of Odisha and Association For Odisha Real Estate Developers are seems to participate in the property expo “Utsav -2015”.

Last year at the same event people has booked more than 200 housing units and loan of Rs 30-40 crore were sanctioned. Currentl y, SBI is operating in more than 800 branches in the state Odisha and has an NPA of more than 6 percent with maximum slippages in the agriculture sector, education loans, micro, small & medium enterprises (MSME) sector and others.