Since the initial reports in the early 1980s using Agrobacterium to generate transgenic plants, scientists have attempted to improve this “natural genetic engineer” for biotechnology purposes. However, only in the past two decades has the ability of Agrobacterium to transfer DNA to plant cells been harnessed for the purposes of plant genetic engineering. Under Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) which was backed by 100 per cent guarantee of the central government, banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have sanctioned loans amounting to Rs 2.97 lakh crore as on 26 November 2021, as per the reply.Agrobacterium tumefaciens and related Agrobacterium species have been known as plant pathogens since the beginning of the 20th century. The government and the Reserve Bank took a number of measures to support the retail and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) borrowers in the wake of the pandemic, including a Covid-19 regulatory package granting moratorium of six months on payments of all instalments of term loans and deferment of recovery of interest on working capital from Mato August 31, 2020. ''As per inputs received from public sector banks (PSBs), as on November 26, 2021, resolution plan/restructuring has been implemented by them in 9.8 lakh MSME accounts amounting to Rs 58,524 crore, and in 8.5 lakh accounts of individual borrowers amounting to Rs 60,662 crore, as on November 15, 2021,'' the Finance Ministry said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
While, as many as 8.5 lakh accounts of individual borrowers of over Rs 60,000 crore have also been restructured. Public sector banks (PSBs) effected restructuring of 9.8 lakh accounts of micro, small and medium enterprises, due to the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, amounting to Rs 58,524 crore as of November 26, the government said in Parliament on Monday.
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