The story of India’s Bank nationalisation in 1969, i.e. the public takeover of a significant part of the country’s banking system, its causes, consequences, achievements, and finally concerted attempts to weaken/roll-back the banking and...
RBI has downgraded India’s growth projection to 9.5% from 10.5%. World Bank projects it at 8.3%. Actually, it may be worse. This is at the backdrop of GDP growth of a negative 7.3%. Last year,...
All over the country, people came out in support of the general strike on March 15,16,17 & 18. With thanks to The Research Collective, Delhi, Sneha, Nagapatinam, TN, Defeat Fascist BJP Campaign, TN, Shahri...
When the financial resolution and deposit insurance Bill was introduced in Parliament many thought that the mighty Government will get it passed. But the campaign against it, not only by Trade Unions but also...
Almost all financial newspapers have informed that 3-5 banks and 3 general insurance companies are going to be privatized. They have indicated that Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, UCO Bank, Punjab and Sind...
An Analysis of Non-Performing Assets & Loans by the Public Sector Banks in the Pre-COVID Era For the Indian banks, reeling under the weight of mounting Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), COVID came as a blessing...
The Banking Sector was already in crisis. Crisis was created through the policies. Large credit was encouraged leading to the NPA Crisis. Development institutions like IDBI, ICICI and even UTI were converted into banks....
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...
On 22nd Oct, AIBEA and BEFI went on strike against merger of Banks. Did anybody care? Sad that all Unions and Associatious objecting merger did not fight together. The Banking Sector Trade Unions in...
All India Bank Officers’ Confederation in a statement condemning the bank merger said, “the announced merger of three public sector banks is nothing but a diversion away from the core issue of NPA recovery....
Prof. C.P. Chandrashekhar looks into the assumptions behind the recent bank merger of Dena Bank, Vijaya Bank and Bank of Baroda, the long-term impact of it on public sector banks (PSBs), using merger as...
Public Statement | New Delhi, September 18, 2018 The Merger of Banks: Harmful, Ill-timed and Avoidable The decision of the government to merge Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank yesterday (September 17, 2018) is...
For immediate release Dishonest to say that NPA crisis is due to the default in agricultural loans: Prof. Prabhat Patnaik New Delhi, January 13, 2018: “It is incorrect to say that the rise in...
More than 10,000 bank employees and officers from across the country marched from Ramlila Grounds to Parliament on September 15, 2017. They were marching to protest the anti-people banking reforms being implemented by successive...