Wednesday, June 25, 2008

A75u-I. LPG Connection financing in Nayakanahatti, Chitradurga District, Karnataka

Project Dates

Implementation start: Oct 07

Project Photos



Project Details

This project is to provide LPG connection financing to the members of Chaitanya MFI. Till the end of October 07, Chaitanya had 105 members. Of this 30 members require LPG connection financing as of end October 07. This need is expected to rise. Although there is a huge demand for LPG, supply of new connections is not always available. The local dealer releases small no. of connections once in a while. For customers to avail this window of opportunity they need to have the financing readily available to pay and get it. Loans from banks are generally slow and within the time the loan is sanctioned, the window of opportunity is lost.

Chaitanya MFI will give its customers, individual loans of size Rs. 3000 for a period of 50 weeks charging an interest of 15% flat. As of end October 30 customers are already existing. Within the next one month, another 20 are expected to be given LPG loans. In the next year another 50 are expected to be given LPG loans.

List of first 30 customers:

Project Financials
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pwRdPi0mYDcLvojJJovlZOQ

put this spreadsheet again on 26 June 08

Project Size Details

This project is LPG connection financing for 50 customers in the first year and another 50 customers in the second year

Project Impact Details

The project will provide LPG for cooking to 100 households in 2 years. For the 100 households they will get a clean and convenient option for cooking.

Estimated Pre-investment Costs

Total Costs – Rs. 4835

S3IDF costs

Personnel costs – Rs. 835
Other costs – Rs. 2000
Total S3IDF costs – Rs. 2835

Partner costs

Personnel costs – Rs. 2000
Other costs
Total Partner costs – Rs. 2000

Returns for S3IDF Revolving Fund

8% flat annual returns;

15% actual returns

Project Indicators

Investment indicators:

Investment size – Rs. 150000

Revolving fund – Rs. 150000

RF to investment size –1

Cost Indicators

Total pre investment cost – Rs. 4835

Pre investment cost/Investment Ratio – 3%

Impact indicators

No. of direct beneficiaries – 100 (over 2 years)

Investment size /no. of beneficiaries –Rs. 1500

Project Risks

Project Owner/operator risk:

The operator is Chaitanya microfinance. This is a new microfinance institution. So there is a risk associated with a new comer. However, Chaitanya has done multiple projects with S3IDF and their repayments have had no problems. Hence this is not such a big risk.

Market risk: There is no market risk

Technology risk: There is no technology risk

Portfolio risk: There is no portfolio risk

Mission risk: There is no mission risk

Partners

Chaitanya Foundation, Indane dealer at Chalakere

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