SIDBIREA

SIDBI was established on April 2, 1990 under an act of the Parliament. It is the principal

financial institution for promotion, financing and development of MSMEs in India. Over the

years, SIDBI has evolved as a one-stop institution to meet the various types of credit

requirements of the MSME sector by offering specialized fund based and non-fund based

financial products. In keeping with the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, SIDBI has

also enlarged its bouquet of offerings over the years. One such emerging area is the

financing of energy efficient, green technologies that also offers a tremendous opportunity

for the banking sector.

SIDBI is promoting sustainable development of MSME sector as it is key to the MSME

sector’s survival and growth in future. In order to improve productivity and competitiveness

of the MSME sector through EE measures in the production process, SIDBI scaled its EE

financing by contracting bilateral Lines of Credit (LoC) from Japan International

Cooperation Agency (JICA), KfW and AFD. SIDBI has also availed a World Bank LoC to

promote Clean technologies, Environmental and Social (E&S) standards in the MSME

sector. SIDBI has channelized loan assistance of more than USD 1 billion for energy

efficiency and cleaner production projects in MSMEs. Further, besides this WB-GEF

Project, SIDBI is also actively engaged in implementing a number of developmental

initiatives like End-to-End Energy Efficiency (4E) Programme, Partial Risk Sharing Facility

(PRSF) Project, etc.

SIDBI is the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of

MSMEs in India. Over the years, SIDBI has evolved as a one-stop institution to meet the

various credit requirements of the MSME sector by offering specialized fund based and nonfund

based financial products.