Section 84A in West Bengal Co-operative Societies Rules, 2011
84A. Loans and advances to members and non-members.
A Co-operative may grant loan to a member thereof belonging to economically weaker sections, this is to say, persons (including scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, marginal farmers, share croppers known as adhiars, bargadars or bhagchasis or by any other local terminology, agricultural labourers and physically or mentally handicapped persons) belonging to families having total annual income not exceeding eight thousand rupees, at a concessional rate of interest and against a lower scale of securities irrespective of the value of shares held by them.
