Gandhinagar, July 8 -- Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has urged the state's cooperative banks to expedite and simplify the process of providing loans and credit to rural self-help groups and Sakhi Mandal on Tuesday.

According to an official release, CM Patel made this appeal while presiding over a review meeting in Gandhinagar, addressing chairpersons of cooperative banks, senior officials from the Gujarat Livelihood Promotion Company, as well as representatives from the Women and Child Development and Rural Development departments.

Minister of Rural Development Raghavji Patel, Minister of State for Cooperation Jagdish Vishwakarma, and Minister of State for Rural Development Kunvarji Halpati also attended this meeting.

The Chief Minist...