OVER 1,000 MORDOVIA ENTREPRENEURS USED THE SME DIGITAL PLATFORM IN 2022
During the first year of operation of the SME Digital Platform, the creation of which was envisaged as part of the implementation of the national project «Small and medium enterprises and support for entrepreneurial initiative»; 1,212 entrepreneurs from Mordovia registered on it. These are small and medium-sized businesses, self-employed and individuals planning to open their own business.
– The SME digital platform is in sufficient demand in Mordovia. In 2022, 1,212 entrepreneurs of the region registered on it. The most popular support measures among them were the program of concessional lending «1,764», under which 181 agreements were concluded in the republic for a total amount of 1.23 billion rubles, as well as the program for subsidizing lending (PSL). According to it, small and medium-sized businesses of Mordovia, in the amount of 20 loans, attracted financing for a total of 516 million rubles. The most frequent goals of financing were working capital, investment and refinancing, – emphasizes Alexander Anokhin, First Deputy Minister of Economy, Trade and Entrepreneurship of the Republic of Mordovia.
According to Elena Kalachina, the Head of the «My Business» Center, in Mordovia all entrepreneurs are informed as much as possible about the possibilities of the SME Digital Platform. The largest number of services provided in the «My Business» center is accompanied by registration on this platform and scoring – the calculation of extended indicators for business diagnostics. On the basis of such scoring, the selection of state support measures that are needed for this particular enterprise at the moment is carried out. These can be soft loans, guarantees and other federal and regional measures. In total, in 2022, our specialists helped 572 entrepreneurs to register and get the results of scoring and prescoring on the SME Digital Platform. In 2023, we will continue our work and we plan that the number of entrepreneurs of Mordovia who have registered on the SME Digital Platform will increase.
Recall that the «Digital Platform» is one of the federal projects that make up the national project «Small and Medium Enterprises». The purpose of its creation is to provide every entrepreneur in our country with the opportunity to remotely receive the necessary support measures and have access to special services, regardless of location.