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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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STATE-AID TO FISHERIES.
The department grants loans and subsidies under various schemes to fishermen and their co-operative societies for various purposes like purchase of engines, mechanisation of fishing crafts, purchase or repair of fishing equipment, such as boats, nets engines. trucks and ice plant. During 1965-66 and 1966-67, the department had granted Rs. 2,877.83 and Rs. 3,914.96, respectively, as subsidies to the fishermen.
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