Complete financial institution credit score to industries grew 10.1 per cent within the first ten months of FY26, up from the 6.3 per cent progress seen within the corresponding interval of FY25.
Micro and small industries (MSE), which have 23.5 per cent share in excellent financial institution credit score to business, recorded 29.2 per cent progress between April 2025 to January 2026. That is sharply increased than the 7.2 per cent progress recorded in the identical interval in FY25. Excellent credit score to this phase rose from ₹7.98 lakh crore in direction of the top of March 2025 to ₹10.31 lakh crore by the top of January 2026.
A number of coverage measures appear to have helped the expansion in MSE credit score. It was introduced within the 2025 Price range that the protection can be elevated from ₹5 crore to ₹10 crore beneath Credit score Assure Scheme – I, to all ensures accepted on or after April 01, 2025, together with enhancement in working capital.
In FY 2024–25, Credit score Assure Fund Belief for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) accepted a document ₹3.06 lakh crore in credit score ensures. Nonetheless, VN Shiva Shankar, Senior Vice-President of Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Business (SICCI) says that though, “CGTMSE restrict improve was impactful, the rise within the ceiling for MUDRA scheme from ₹10 lakhs to ₹20 lakhs, was extra impactful.”
Formalisation helps
Some consultants suppose that rising formalisation can also be serving to the expansion of MSE loans. “Micro and small enterprises are main the current progress in industrial credit score primarily as a result of they’re increasing from a smaller base and benefiting from speedy formalisation,” Shachindra Nath, MD of UGRO Capital.
“On this side ‘UDYAM’ registrations have been extraordinarily useful. MSMEs have now seen that a number of the bigger gamers are even going for itemizing, incentivising increased formalisation,” says Shankar.
Mr. Siva Shankar additional said that, “the banks have additionally been trying to find good MSMEs to lend. Nonetheless, the flexibility to do a credit score threat evaluation or the conviction that they will lend and so they can acquire was lacking. Commerce Receivables Discounting System (TreDS) platform is a sport changer on this regard because it frees MSMEs from the working capital necessities, easing safety fears of banks.”
Sarvadnya Kulkarni, CEO of Basic Devices Consortium, a MSME, says, “the rise in MSME credit score is intently aligned with the revival in industrial capex. Sectors akin to oil & fuel, energy, chemical compounds and infrastructure have seen stronger mission execution, and MSMEs working inside these are drawing increased working capital. Export progress has additionally contributed considerably as engineering MSMEs are increasing deliveries, which requires enhanced stock funding.”
Medium industries additionally recorded sturdy credit score progress at 17.3 per cent within the first ten months. Excellent credit score to this phase stood at ₹4.26 lakh crore in direction of the top of January 2026, accounting for 9.7 per cent share. Credit score progress to massive industries, nevertheless, declined to three.8 per cent, decrease than final 12 months’s 5.2 per cent progress within the first ten months of FY26. However massive industries nonetheless account for greater than two-third share of all excellent financial institution credit score to industries.
Revealed on February 27, 2026
