<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Around 34 crore loans amounting to over 17 lakh crore rupees have been disbursed under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana since the inception of the scheme in 2015. </span>This was stated by Minister of State for Finance Dr. Bhagwat Karad in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.<br />''<br />''He said, more than 23 crore loans with the disbursement of 7 lakh 65 thousand crore rupees have been extended to women borrowers. This constitutes around 68 percent of the total number of loans and 44 percent of disbursed amount under the Scheme.<br />''<br />''<br />