New Delhi, Mar 11 (KNN) The Departments from Railways, Defence, Telecommunications and Health and Family Welfare have received maxium number of delayed payments applications which have been filed by micro and small enterprises (MSE) on MSME Samadhaan portal.

As per the data available on the portal, 33 central ministries and 38 central departments, against which 535 and 894 cases of delayed payments have been filed so far.

The number of applications filed by the MSE against the said department shows that Department of Defence/Ministry of Defence topping with 303 applications where as the Department of Telecommunications/Ministry of Communications has received 119 and Department of Health and Family Welfare/Ministry of Health and Family Welfare standing below them with 110 applications.

MSEs have filed 116 applications for delayed payments against the Ministry of Railways. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Ministry of Atomic Energy were the other two ministries in the top three ministries’ bracket against which 58 and 53 applications have been filed respectively.

Out of the applications filed, the number of central ministries and departments applications disposed of by the MSE Facilitation Council (MSEFC) was 33 and 46.  In terms of the mutual settlement between the MSE and the buyer (respondent), the number of cases for central ministry and departments was 104 and 169.

On the other hand, the number of rejected applications against central ministries MSEFC was 88 while for central departments the number was 110.

The Samadhaan portal launched on October 30, 2017, has received 37,972 applications so far across 12 respondent categories including central ministries, central departments, central PSUs, railways, state government etc. Apart from ‘other’ category against which 18,385 applications of delayed payments have been filed, the top respondents delayed MSE payments were proprietorship with 6,769 applications, state government with 3,125 applications, and MSME units with 2,559 cases.