Letter to bank invoking the collateral-free lending instruction for MSE loans
None of these is a scheme a client applies for, yet each decides whether and how a bank lends. The trap this year is the collateral rule: from 01.04.2026 banks may not take collateral on loans of up to Rs 20 lakh to micro and small enterprises, double the old Rs 10 lakh, and branches that have not caught up still ask for it.
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- 16 September 2026
What it covers
- 1Letter to bank invoking the collateral-free lending instruction for MSE loansRBI Master Direction, Lending to MSME Sector, para 4.1, as amended 09.02.2026
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[Letterhead of the borrower]
Date: [Date of the letter]
To
The Branch Manager
[Name of bank], [Branch]
[Branch address]
Subject: [Proposal ref. / Loan account no. ____] — request to sanction without collateral security / to release collateral, in terms of the RBI Master Direction on Lending to the MSME Sector
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