Explanation:

e-Shakti is a pilot project of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for the digitisation of Self Help Groups (SHGs).

It was initiated to address certain concerns like improving the quality of bookkeeping of SHGs and to enable banks to take informed credit decisions about the group through a Management Information System (MIS).

The project covers 25 districts and 1,30,176 SHGs have been digitised as on 31st March 2017.

As per information compiled by NABARD, about 69,696 SHGs of the SHGs which have been digitised are credit-linked as on 31st July 2017.

No SHG has been de-recognised on account of, or, after digitisation.

The digitisation project does not impact the profit/ loss position of the SHGs.