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Home > Posts by Devidas Tuljapurakar

A Decade of Write-Offs: How the Govt and Banks Failed to Tackle NPAs and Helped Big Corporations

The government has time and again stated that ‘write off’ does not mean relief to the borrower as recovery processes continue. But in practice, banks are compelled to forgo any hope of recovery.

Read more October 31, 2023 at 11:56 am Devidas Tuljapurakar

The merger of PSBs- A Failed Experiment!

On 1st October 2017, five associate banks of SBI were merged in the State Bank of India. Dena Bank and Vijay Bank were merged in Bank of Baroda on 1st April 2019, while in...

Read more January 24, 2022 at 8:14 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

SAVE PUBLIC SECTOR CHARACTER OF IDBI

TO PROTECT HARD EARNED SAVINGS OF THE COMMON MAN ORIGIN OF DEVELOPMENT BANKING Historically, the idea of establishing special institution for the provision of finance for industry was put forth in strong terms, as...

Read more September 23, 2020 at 3:27 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

19th July Call of the Day is “Defend Bank Nationalisation: – Defeat Bank Privatisation”

19th July 1969, the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi Nationalised 14 major private sector banks. Thus banking reached to the rural areas, backward regions. Banks started lending to the agriculture which enabled green revolution...

Read more July 15, 2020 at 12:05 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

Banking in Disarray! How to bring it back on tracks?

RBI in its first announcement dated 27th March 2020, consequent upon corona pandemic 2019 had come out with various initiatives such as reduction in CRR, Repo Rate etc. thus to improve upon liquidity position...

Read more April 27, 2020 at 10:17 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

Faultlines in the path of PSU privatisation

The Economic Survey for 2019-20, on page 158 in Chapter 7 puts it on record that “PSBs are clearly not efficient today”. This is the statement issued by the owner of these banks. If...

Read more February 18, 2020 at 1:53 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

Bank Mergers Why For?

Nirmala Sitaraman, Minister of Finance, in her latest press conference, announced the merger of 10 Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to carve out four big banks. In the process six, PSBs are being closed. Presently...

Read more August 31, 2019 at 11:14 am Devidas Tuljapurakar

Indian Economy In Deep Troubles: Stock-taking of the Previous Financial Year

The Financial Year 2018-19, which recently ended, proved to be the most challenging year for the financial world. The first and foremost challenge was the introduction of the Financial Regulatory and Deposit Insurance Bill...

Read more April 5, 2019 at 7:06 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

Impact of Global Crisis on the Indian Banking System

This impact is not only circumscribed to NPA. Overall, Indian banking is passing through one of the worst crisis in history. Since the last three years, banking in the public sector is almost stagnant....

Read more December 14, 2018 at 4:32 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

Banking in the Dilemma of Recovery

Presently the Indian Banking is passing through a deep crisis mainly on account of mounting Non-Performing Assets, which were unfolded after the Assets Quality Inspection by the RBI at the instance of the then...

Read more September 1, 2018 at 12:51 pm Devidas Tuljapurakar

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