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2.11 Profile Readiness Checklist

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WhenBefore you start a loan assessment, and again before you submit it

A loan assessment takes a frozen copy of the farmer's profile when it is submitted. Gaps found later mean a return for correction, or a score that cannot be produced. Use this checklist to make sure the profile is ready.

Must have

✓ Item Where Why
☐ Profile is Active and has a farmer code 2.1 Draft profiles cannot be assessed
☐ Farming history recorded 2.3 Decides how experience and early crops are treated
☐ For a farmer who started recently or never cultivated: a newness visit recorded 2.3 Required before scoring
☐ Every cultivated parcel registered, with cultivation continuity completed 2.5 Continuity and operating security are scored per parcel
☐ Irrigation type set on each irrigated parcel 2.5 Crop irrigation depends on it
☐ Crops recorded for the current year and the previous years, or the year marked fallow 2.7 Crop history is a core scoring input
☐ Crop history completeness confirmed for each year 2.7 A year is never assumed complete
☐ Annual income recorded for the last completed fiscal years 2.9 Income stability
☐ Credit history: existing loans recorded, or a verified no prior formal credit declaration 2.9 Credit History cannot be completed otherwise
☐ Identity proof and land record uploaded and Verified 2.10 Required documents on the assessment checklist

Strengthens the assessment

✓ Item Where
☐ Parcel location captured (pin, ideally with a boundary) 2.6
☐ Soil Health Card or lab report, Valid for each parcel 2.5
☐ Crop irrigation backed by a field visit 2.7
☐ Yields recorded for harvested crops, and sale status answered 2.7
☐ Sale transactions with their own verified receipts 2.8
☐ Income verified against a document 2.9
☐ Loans classified from a verified bureau report 2.9
☐ Banking, machinery access, livestock, labour and allied livelihood sections completed 2.9
☐ Insurance (PMFBY coverage evidence or other policies) recorded 2.7

Next step

When the profile is ready, start the loan assessment. See Module 3 · Loan Assessment & Sanction.