SKBLBS to offer 14.25% bonus shares to shareholders

Kathmandu, Jan. 10

Sana Kisan Bikas Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited (SKBLBS) has decided to distribute a 14.25 per cent bonus share to its shareholders.

The decision was made by the microfinance's 24th Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Kathmandu on Friday.

The meeting approved a proposal to provide shareholders with a 14.25 per cent bonus share as a return on investment, along with a 0.75 per cent cash dividend for tax purposes. The institution also reaffirmed its commitment to further expanding its business in the coming days in order to deliver higher returns.

The financial institution has 1,463 partner organisations affiliated across 546 local levels in all 77 districts of the country. These affiliated cooperative institutions have mobilised and utilised internal capital amounting to Rs. 88.84 billion. By the end of the fiscal year 2024/25, the institution had successfully extended microfinance services to a total of 941,731 small farmer households.

Of these, Dalits account for 10.92 per cent, ethnic communities 42.21 per cent, and others 46.87 per cent, while women’s participation stands at 82 per cent, the institution claimed.

In fiscal year 2024/25, Sana Kisan's paid-up capital reached Rs. 4.31 billion, while total assets stood at Rs. 41.50 billion. Chief Executive Officer Bashu Adhikari said that earnings per share of the company stood at Rs. 20.29, book net worth per share at Rs. 239.38, return on total capital at 8.48 per cent, the price–earnings ratio at 43.40, and the capital adequacy ratio at 16.02 per cent.

He added that by mid-July 2025, the institution had invested Rs. 23.01 billion and recovered loans worth Rs. 24.84 billion from its affiliated institutions, while outstanding loans amounted to Rs. 35.90 billion.

With loan support from the government, the institution has been implementing a concessional livestock and vegetable farming credit programme for the past 15 years.

Under this programme, by the end of fiscal year 2024/25, it had targeted investments of Rs. 18.38 billion in meat and dairy-based livestock farming for 169,500 farmers, and Rs. 2.22 billion in vegetable farming loans for 17,500 farmers.

In practice, loans amounting to Rs. 43.80 billion were disbursed to 285,372 farmers for livestock farming, and Rs. 3.09 billion to 18,102 small farmers for vegetable cultivation. Through these investments, farmers have reared 1.78 million livestock—including goats, pigs, buffalo calves, buffaloes and cows—and cultivated vegetables on more than 10,000 bighas of land.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 11 January 2026.