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The primary rulebook for MSME classification, collateral-free lending, composite loans, rehabilitation and credit flow.
Confirm the current MSME definition, lending instructions and sanction-date applicability.
Current PSL categories, targets, sub-targets, eligible MSME lending and on-lending treatment.
Validate PSL classification, reporting category and borrower-level eligibility.
Current consolidated directions issued by RBI across credit, KYC, prudential and conduct subjects.
Check the latest consolidated direction before relying on an older circular.
Chronological circulars, amendment directions and standalone regulatory instructions.
Check amendments issued after the date of a master direction.
Transparent treatment of penal charges without capitalisation as penal interest.
Check sanction terms, defaults and pricing clauses for regulatory conformity.
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CDD, beneficial ownership, risk categorisation, ongoing due diligence and PMLA-linked obligations.
Set the KYC pack and identify promoter, beneficial-owner and enhanced-due-diligence requirements.
Official MSME registration and classification record.
Validate URN, activity, enterprise type and the classification recorded for PSL purposes.
Authenticates an Udyam Registration Number and certificate details.
Independently verify the certificate rather than relying only on the borrower’s copy.
Formalisation route for eligible informal micro enterprises.
Recognise Udyam Assist Certificates for PSL treatment where applicable.
Company/LLP master data, directors, filings, charges and public documents.
Verify legal existence, status, registered office, directors and filing discipline.
Core registration particulars and current status of companies and LLPs.
Cross-check constitutional documents and identify status anomalies.
DIN-linked roles and signatories across corporate entities.
Map promoter/director interests, common entities and governance history.
Central KYC records for eligible customers.
Retrieve and reconcile KYC information through authorised institutional access.
PMLA reporting framework, indicators and regulated-entity guidance.
Support AML risk assessment and escalation of unusual or suspicious patterns.
Current UN-designated persons and entities.
Screen customers, promoters, beneficial owners and counterparties under the bank’s sanctions process.
LLP constitution, partner authority, filings and liability.
Validate LLP agreement, designated partners and borrowing authority.
Partnership formation, partner authority, liability and dissolution.
Review partnership deed, registration and authority to borrow/create security.
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Governance, early warning, fraud classification, reporting and natural-justice requirements.
Guide red-flag escalation, forensic review and fraud-classification process.
Identification, review, penal measures, guarantor treatment and reporting of wilful/defaulting borrowers.
Apply the due process and restrictions when diversion, siphoning or deliberate non-payment is suspected.
Fraud/caution information accessible to authorised regulated entities.
Complete mandatory caution-list and internal vigilance checks before sanction/disbursement.
Operational, financial, transactional, market and governance warning signals.
Record evidence, owner, action and closure instead of treating EWS as a one-time checklist.
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SMA/NPA recognition, out-of-order tests, overdue status, income reversal and provisioning.
Determine stress classification and avoid evergreening or delayed NPA recognition.
Review period, resolution plans, additional provisioning and inter-creditor arrangements.
Structure a time-bound resolution once default or incipient stress is identified.
Quantity/value verification, ageing, ineligibles, related parties, insurance and DP controls.
Validate drawing power and identify inventory/receivable quality deterioration.
Corporate and personal insolvency framework, creditor rights, moratorium and resolution/winding-up processes.
Assess insolvency status, remedy, priority and time-bound recovery options.
Limitation periods and acknowledgement-related considerations for enforcement.
Protect limitation through timely documentation and legal action.
Authenticated financial information and debt records under the IBC ecosystem.
Use authorised IU services for debt-information and default-related processes.
Insolvency professionals, entities, orders, claims and public-announcement resources.
Check borrower/group insolvency events and practitioner/regulatory records.
Cause lists, orders and benches handling corporate/IBC matters.
Track material petitions, CIRP and company-law proceedings.
Appeals and orders involving NCLT, IBC and related competition/company matters.
Check appellate status before relying on a lower-forum order.
DRT/DRAT case filing, status and recovery-related services.
Track lender recovery proceedings and material borrower litigation.
Sanction conditions, financial covenants, deferrals, renewals, insurance and document expiry.
Convert appraisal assumptions into dated controls and escalate breaches early.
Policy validity, asset coverage, inspection, charge and document status.
Prevent avoidable loss of collateral protection or enforceability after disbursement.
Latest financials, GST/IT evidence, conduct, bureau, stock, covenants, security and compliance.
Re-underwrite the risk; do not treat renewal as a mechanical extension.
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Credit-information submission, correction, customer access and reporting discipline.
Interpret bureau data and handle data-quality or correction issues.
Rules governing current accounts, collection accounts and banking arrangements for borrowers with credit exposure.
Design routing, escrow and consortium/MBA conditions without breaching account-opening restrictions.
Entity facilities, repayment history, enquiries and credit exposure reported by members.
Map total banking exposure, conduct, restructuring and recent credit shopping.
Commercial and promoter credit history from a registered CIC.
Supplement primary bureau review and resolve exposure mismatches.
Credit history and exposure information for commercial borrowers.
Cross-check repayment conduct and lender-reported obligations.
Business and promoter credit-information products.
Add an independent credit-history lens when policy or risk warrants.
System-level large-credit exposure and stress reporting available to regulated lenders.
Check eligible large borrower/group exposure, SMA/default indicators and lender positions.
Credits, debits, utilisation, devolvement, cheque returns, transfers and counterparty patterns.
Reconstruct cash flows, identify circular routing and test declared turnover against actual conduct.
Limit, security, conduct, covenants, overdue and information-sharing record.
Confirm satisfactory dealings and unresolved consortium/MBA matters.
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Statutory framework for MSME definition, facilitation councils and delayed-payment protection.
Check legal status, supplier protections and statutory references used in the appraisal.
Current composite investment and turnover thresholds for micro, small and medium enterprises.
Test both thresholds and confirm the classification shown on Udyam.
MSE delayed-payment applications before facilitation councils.
Check receivable disputes, buyer concentration and potential liquidity stress.
Deduction timing for sums payable to qualifying micro and small enterprises.
Examine ageing, buyer behaviour and tax impacts around delayed MSE payables.
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Grievance resolution, handholding and information support for MSMEs.
Identify institutional support for distressed or growth-oriented units.
Eligibility, guarantee extent, hybrid security, fee, tenure, claim and recovery conditions.
Structure eligible MSE facilities and capture every condition required to preserve cover.
Current coverage, fees, product and claim-process amendments.
Check that the sanction and guarantee application use the instruction prevailing on the relevant date.
Government-backed credit guarantee trusts administered by NCGTC.
Identify the correct guarantee scheme and its live operational guidelines.
Eligibility discovery and application gateway for multiple credit-linked government schemes.
Identify applicable support without treating portal eligibility as a substitute for bank appraisal.
Institutional finance framework for eligible micro enterprises under current categories.
Check current product ceiling, borrower eligibility and refinance/guarantee linkage.
Credit-linked subsidy for eligible new micro-enterprise projects.
Validate beneficiary, activity, project cost, own contribution and subsidy-lock-in conditions.
Greenfield enterprise finance for eligible SC/ST and women entrepreneurs.
Check ownership/control, greenfield status, project cost and composite-loan structure.
Recognition, skill, toolkit, digital incentive and concessional credit for eligible artisans and craftspeople.
Verify trade, registration, tranche and training conditions before lending.
Searchable catalogue of credit, subsidy, technology, market and entrepreneurship schemes.
Discover candidate schemes, then confirm eligibility from the prevailing official guideline.
MSME finance, development, digital platforms and ecosystem interventions.
Identify refinance, cluster, sustainability and specialised support relevant to the proposal.
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Registration, employment and classification statistics for the MSME universe.
Add scale and geographic context to sector or location analysis.
Commodity- and country-level Indian trade data.
Test export market size, concentration, cyclicality and product-country trends.
Banking, credit, rates, macroeconomic, state and sector data.
Anchor industry and economic assumptions in official time-series evidence.
GDP, industrial production, inflation, enterprise and survey statistics.
Benchmark sector growth, cost trends and economic context.
Datasets published by central and state government departments.
Find district, infrastructure, agriculture and sector evidence relevant to a proposal.
Government procurement categories, sellers, bids and orders.
Validate GeM-dependent business claims, order conditions and buyer concentration.
Annual reports and investor presentations across scheduled commercial banks.
Benchmark banking-sector strategy, portfolio trends and lender perspectives.
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Official activity codes used across registrations and statistical systems.
Confirm whether the declared activity and NIC code align with actual operations.
Identification and application support for central and state business approvals.
Build a licence/approval checklist suited to activity, scale and location.
Food-business registration/licensing, product and compliance services.
Verify category, premises, validity and capacity for food-sector borrowers.
Industry pollution categories, standards and compliance resources.
Determine likely consent requirements and environmental risk category; verify with the State PCB.
Environment, forest, wildlife and coastal-regulation clearances.
Check project clearance status, conditions and pending compliance for applicable industries.
Indian Standards, compulsory registration and product certification information.
Check whether the product requires a mandatory licence and whether certification is valid.
Weights, measures, packaged commodities and model-approval requirements.
Check registrations and declarations relevant to manufacturing, packing or trading.
Establishment coverage, remittance and compliance services for provident fund.
Review statutory-dues discipline and undisclosed employee/compliance exposure.
Employer registration, contribution and coverage services.
Assess statutory compliance and contingent liability related to employees.
Activity- and location-specific permission to occupy and operate.
Verify every critical approval, validity, capacity and renewal directly with the issuing authority.
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Filed financial statements, annual returns and charge documents.
Reconcile borrower-submitted financials with statutory filings and inspect auditor/director disclosures.
GSTIN status, legal/trade name, registration type, place of business and filing indicators.
Verify GST identity, activity, locations and filing regularity.
GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, annual returns, liability and cash/credit ledgers.
Reconcile turnover, tax payment, customer concentration and seasonality with financial statements.
ITRs, tax audit reports, AIS/TIS and filed forms.
Reconcile income, turnover, depreciation, related-party items and tax compliance.
Authenticates UDINs generated for certificates and attest functions.
Verify CA-certified financial statements, stock statements and certificates where UDIN applies.
Working-capital, cash-flow, leverage and debt-service analysis in one appraisal workspace.
Test assumptions, peak funding need, DSCR, liquidity and sensitivity before recommending limits.
Balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow, notes, accounting policies and auditor qualifications.
Establish historical performance, net worth quality, leverage and cash conversion.
Current-period operating and balance-sheet position beyond the latest audit.
Test whether the sanction is supported by current performance and reconcile material movements.
GST law, rules, rates, notifications, circulars and sector clarifications.
Interpret tax treatment and investigate mismatches that affect turnover or margins.
Movement-of-goods records and related taxpayer services.
Where policy and consent permit, corroborate dispatch activity and trading geography.
Invoice registration and e-invoice enablement information.
Corroborate eligible B2B invoice activity and identify compliance gaps.
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Past, estimated and projected performance; operating statement; balance sheet; current assets/liabilities and fund flow.
Test projection logic, MPBF/assessed bank finance and consistency across statements.
Month-wise receipts, operating payments, interest, repayments, capex and borrowing position.
Size seasonal and contract-driven limits to the actual peak deficit rather than annual averages.
Inventory, receivable, payable and operating-cycle assessment using value and days.
Identify the true cash-conversion gap and challenge inflated holding assumptions.
Project-cost validation, promoter contribution, debt service, implementation and viability analysis.
Test whether debt, moratorium and repayment match the project’s commissioning and cash generation.
Downside tests for sales, margin, cost, delay, interest rate and working-capital stretch.
Identify the break point and translate model vulnerability into covenants or lower exposure.
Ownership, guarantees, inter-company balances, common directors and aggregate banking exposure.
Avoid fragmented appraisal and surface hidden leverage or cash diversion across the group.
Executable value, margin, milestones, retention, cancellation and collection terms.
Separate executable backlog from headline orders and map project-wise funding needs.
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Search and registration of security interests, including mortgages and other eligible assets.
Identify prior encumbrances and complete charge registration/perfection.
Creation, registration and enforcement framework for security interests by secured creditors.
Assess enforceability, eligible security and recovery route.
Official access to enforced Acts and subordinate legislation.
Retrieve the current statute rather than depending on an undated secondary summary.
Corporate authority, board/shareholder approvals, charges, guarantees and financial-assistance restrictions.
Validate borrowing powers, resolutions, related-party approvals and ROC charge requirements.
Contract formation, consideration, indemnity, guarantee, agency and enforceability.
Understand foundational rights and obligations in loan and guarantee documents.
Transfers, mortgages, leases and property interests.
Support title review and selection/creation of mortgage security.
Compulsory registration and evidentiary consequences for property documents.
Check whether security/title documents require registration and the effect of non-registration.
Stamp duty and admissibility requirements for finance and security documents.
Determine correct stamping jurisdiction, instrument and amount before execution.
Registered valuers and recognised valuation-entity information.
Verify valuer eligibility and disciplinary standing where the framework applies.
State/UT land-record digitisation and related service links.
Locate the appropriate official land-record source; still obtain a lawyer’s title search and state-specific records.
Real-estate project, promoter and regulatory filings through state RERA authorities.
Check project registration, promoter disclosures and encumbrance information for relevant collateral/projects.
Ownership chain, encumbrances, litigation, land use, approvals and enforceability.
Decide whether the offered property is clear, marketable and enforceable security.
Market/fair/realizable/distress values, assumptions, comparable evidence and asset condition.
Set collateral cover using policy-accepted value and identify valuation caveats.
Case status, orders and cause lists across participating courts.
Search borrower/promoter litigation and independently examine material cases.
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IEC, Foreign Trade Policy, procedures, authorisations and exporter services.
Verify IEC and test incentive/authorisation assumptions in exporter or importer proposals.
Realisation, repatriation, advance receipts, write-off and export-related FEMA rules.
Structure export finance and identify overdue export-bill or compliance risk.
Import remittances, evidence, advance payments and import-related FEMA requirements.
Assess LC/BG/import-loan structure and compliance with remittance timelines.
Shipping bills, bills of entry, customs status and trade services.
Corroborate import/export activity and reconcile trade documents where authorised.
Export credit insurance, buyer/country risk and policy products.
Assess receivable risk mitigation and policy/assignment conditions for export finance.
Export finance products, country/sector studies and trade-development resources.
Add market and country context to export-led proposals.
How the material is organised
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KYC, Udyam, legal form, beneficial ownership, promoters and group mapping.
Activity, NIC code, licences, capacity, supply chain, customers and statutory approvals.
Audits, provisionals, GST, ITR, bank flows, receivable ageing and cash conversion.
Commercial and promoter bureaus, CRILC, lender conduct, enquiries and banking behaviour.
Working capital, peak cash deficit, term-loan viability, sensitivity, pricing and covenants.
Title, valuation, CERSAI, charges, insurance, legal enforceability and perfection.
CGTMSE and other live support—subject to the prevailing operational guideline.
DP, covenants, EWS, renewal, stress classification, resolution and recovery forums.
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