-The Hindu Business Line Ahmedabad: Ahead of the kharif sowing season, Gujarat is facing a cash shortage as banks have started receiving lesser cash than required from the RBI. This has resulted in the rationing of cash disbursements at several banks in parts of Gujarat, mainly in the north. Banking sources confirmed experiencing cash shortage at the currency chest level from where the disbursement of cash takes place to the bank branches. There...
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Checking NPAs: 11 Public Sector Banks now on RBI watchlist, small firms face credit crunch -Sunny Verma & Sandeep Singh
-The Indian Express At present, 11 weak PSBs out of the 21 State-owned banks are under the PCA, which kicks in when banks breach regulatory norms on issues such as minimum capital, amount of non-performing assets and return on assets. Lending to the corporate sector, particularly small and medium enterprises, is becoming increasingly difficult with more than half the country’s Public Sector Banks (PSBs) now under the RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action (PCA)...
More »Forget job growth, employment in India actually fell between 2014 and 2016 -Manas Chakravarty
-Livemint.com Data from the latest KLEMS India database shows that employment in the Indian economy shrank by 0.1% in 2015-16 and by 0.2% in 2014-15 Mumbai: Employment in the total Indian economy shrank by 0.1% in financial year 2015-16 and by 0.2% in 2014-15. Far from more jobs being created, employment has actually contracted. That is the finding from the latest KLEMS India database, a research project supported by the Reserve Bank of...
More »Central Vigilance Commission wants to keep an eye on private banks -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu Asks PMO to frame law for it The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has urged the Prime Minister’s Office to bring private sector banks under its watch, citing the fact that they have been involved in many recent instances of malfeasance. Vigilance officers in all State-owned Public Sector Banks are required to report irregularities and possible wrongdoing to the CVC, India’s apex body for checking corruption in the government. Private sector banks...
More »Corporates make 73% of public sector bank bad loans -Sunny Verma
-The Indian Express The Finance Ministry directed smaller PSBs to cut their corporate loan exposure to 25 per cent of their risk-weighted assets over the medium term and focus more on retail lending. Corporate loans corner the lion’s share of rising bad loans in Public Sector Banks while retail loans have a far superior track record when it comes to timely repayment, according to the latest available Reserve Bank of India...
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