Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 15: Jammu and Kashmir Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes & Backward Classes Development Corporation Limited, provided loan for a 207 Tata Mobile vehicle to an unemployed person belonging to Scheduled Tribe (ST) category.
The Vice Chairperson of the Corporation, Balbir Ram Rattan, handed over key of the Tata Mobile to Gons Mohammed, an unemployed person of ST community from Badori village of tehsil Bari Brahmana and district Samba, in presence of Divisional Manager, Gulam Qadir Khatana and Manager Projects Mohammed Iqbal Kataria.
Balbir Ram Rattan, on this occasion, said that the loanees, Gons Mohammed, was earning his bread by driving a matador and later a private vehicle, which was not a permanent work and many times he was sitting totally idle at home but after coming to know about the loan facility provided by the J&K SCs, STs, BCs Development Corporation, he approached for financial assistance to buy a load carrier to be self dependent. The Corporation, after processing his case, sanctioned Rs 5.6 lakh as Term Loan in his favour for a Tata 207 vehicle.