Dear Goanetters, As per below e-mails, please forward the information in my e-mail to all christians. Please let me know, whether the below schemes are also available in Goa, so that poor goans can take advantage and not be forced to sell ancestral property :-
The Mumbai-based Maulana Azad Minorities Financial Development Corporation Ltd (MAMFDC), set up in the year 2000, has a budget of Rs. 100 crore to provide soft loans for various schemes and higher education for the needy Christians and other minorities, from the lower income groups. LOANS AVAILABLE:- Soft loan schemes are as follows:- (1) Direct Loan Schemes Loan limit Rs. 5,000/- to Rs. 50,000/-. Interest rate 6 percent. Self contribution 5 percent and loan repayment period 5 years. (2) Term Loan Scheme Loan limit Rs. 5,000/- to Rs. 5 lakhs. Interest rate 6 percent for amounts upto Rs. 2 lakhs and 10 percent for amounts above it. Self contribution 5 percent. (3) Seed capital loan scheme - Loan limit Rs. 5,000/- to Rs. 5 lakhs. Self contribution 5 percent. Corporations contribution 35% of the project cost and bank loan is 60%. Interest @ 3% for Corporations contribution. Repayment period 5 years. (4) Education loan scheme Loan limit upto Rs. 3 lakhs for any form of higher education beyond the HSC. Simple interest applicable is 3%. Repayment is 3 years after the beneficiary is employed. (5) Micro finance :- Loan limit upto Rs. 25,000/- per applicant.SHG(self help groups) . Interest @ 5 percent. (6) Mahila Samrudhi scheme Loan limit upto Rs. 25,000/- per applicant/beneficiary @ 4 % interest. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED :- (1) Proof of residence (2) Proof of income (3) Project quotations (4) Guarantor WHO CAN APPLY? You can apply for the loan if:- (1) You are between 18 45 years of age, (2) Your minimum education qualification of upto class iv. (3) The annual family income of applicant in (a) urban area must be below rs. 54,000/- (b) rural area must be below Rs. 39,500/- (4) MAFDC performs activities through district level Employment and self-employment guidance centres. WHERE TO APPLY? Contact Person - (1) Gaffar Shaikh - Managing director MAMFDC (2) Janet DSouza Director - MAMFDC Application forms are available at office of MAMFDC, second floor, D.D bldg, Old Customs house, Shahid Bhagat Singh road, Mumbai 400 023. Ph nos. 022-22653080 / 22633351 FAX: 022 22672294 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAMFDC also helps you by:- (1) Organising vocational training programmes (2) Exhibitions (3) Marketing (4) Skill Upgradation (5) Design development programmes Regards, PS: A mumbai-based, Catholic, bank manager, from Tivim, Goa would like to buy property in Tivim village, Goa. Please e-mail if any property is vailable in Tivim, Goa and I will send you her e-mail id and ph no. ========================================= Message: 5 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:45:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Goanet] celina, katrina and goa-----going...going...gone Mario wrote: > > Jane, > > Thanks for observing that we should be happy that > Celina, Katrina, etc. are helping poor Goans by > buying and refurbishing their crumbling properties > in Goa, that they cannot afford to keep up and/or > need the money for something else.? Also, that the > objections to such wonderful developments are silly. > > Now, I look forward to your discussing the brilliant > post by Ed about "Modern Humans" and including > (Goans)Indians among the Neanderthals who mixed with > Homo Sapiens > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:00:54 +0000 (GMT) From: edward desilva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you saying Indians are pure africans or pure indians,?ie, we?always were 'modern humans'. Are you saying that the Africans never crossed India on their way to the west to mix with the neanderthals and BACK AGAIN? > Mario responds: > Ed, > I did not say anything like this. > I just congratulated Jane because she was happy that people like Celina and Katrina were buying property in Goa and refurbishing these old houses that may otherwise crumble, and said that I looked forward to her response to your post about "Modern Humans" in which you included (Goans)Indians among Neanderthals:-)) You may be correct, but I wouldn't know, though we all know some Goans who resemble Neanderthals, or at least THINK like them, who shall remain nameless:-)) > I'm still waiting for Jane's response:-)) > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Selling Our Ancestral Home To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mario Goveia?wrote: > > BTW, unless I'm missing something, aren't there many > real poor people in Goa, who never had a home to > sell in the first place that are much more in need > of help and education? > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:11:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mario, You and me have been yapping for too long on the net. If you are a man of action and are ready to help, how about us donating some time and/or money to those who really need help in Goa?