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privatisation of banks

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IDBI Privatisation: Betrayal with Parliamentary Mandate & Mandate of the Constitution

After getting independence in the year 1947, India adopted the process of planning for the economic development of the country. As soon as it became a republic, in 1950, the first five-year plan was...

Read more November 7, 2022 at 10:59 am Devidas Tuljapurkar

RBI Bulletin- What did the media miss out?

It is surprising that none of these national newspapers noticed the footnote in the publication which said that this was not the opinion of the RBI.

Read more August 22, 2022 at 1:35 pm Thomas Franco

How to destroy the Indian Economy? Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagaraiya prescribe

A report presented by Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagaraiya at the India Policy Forum 2022 on 12th July, is clearly a prescription for destroying the Indian Economy which is already on the verge of...

Read more August 2, 2022 at 12:31 pm Thomas Franco

Privatization of Public Sector Banks: A Lethal blow to Social Banking

A Critical Report on Indian Overseas Bank Today our country is in an economic crisis, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is massive unemployment. Rural infrastructure is not improving, and the Central Government...

Read more May 30, 2022 at 6:23 pm Kannan Neelamegan

The Fate of Rural and Farm Credit with Privatisation of Banks

Rural and farm credit were totally neglected before the nationalisation of banks on 19th July 1969. The historic All India Rural Credit Survey carried out in 1954 showed that formal credit institutions provided less...

Read more December 24, 2021 at 4:53 pm Thomas Franco

Privatisation of Banks – A Comedy of Errors or Sale to Corporates?

Amendment of the banking law has been enlisted in this session of parliament. This is a reversal of the nationalization affected in 1969 and 1980, taking over private banks from business houses that were...

Read more November 29, 2021 at 3:22 pm Thomas Franco

SBI- A Guinea Pig for Neo-liberal Policies

The union government is bent upon privatising the Life Insurance Corporation of India. They stealthily announced an amendment to the LIC Act by making a statement in the Union Budget 2021 and made it...

Read more October 11, 2021 at 5:52 pm Thomas Franco

Shame on you, Finance Minister!

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently tweeted- “The Primary reason for PSBs to post such as Rs.57832 Crore turn around – from a loss of Rs.26016 Crore in 2019-2020 to a combined profit of Rs....

Read more August 6, 2021 at 12:10 pm Thomas Franco

Bank Nationalization Day: In Defense of Public Sector Banks

19th of July is marked as the bank nationalisation day, recognising the historical decision of the Indira Gandhi government to take control of private banks. It is not an exaggeration to say that the...

Read more July 23, 2021 at 10:01 am CFA

History of Nationalisation of Banks and Task ahead

While celebrating 52 years of Nationalisation, we have a government led by those people who along with their party opposed Nationalisation and now want to privatise everything. It is important to look at History...

Read more July 19, 2021 at 6:37 pm Thomas Franco

How ‘The insolvency and bankruptcy code’ helps to loot public money ‘legally’

A law called “The insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC) 2016” was enacted in the parliament in May 2016 apparently to recover the mounting Non-Performing Asset (NPA) from the corporate sector. This law enables the...

Read more July 19, 2021 at 6:14 pm C P Krishnan

IBC: Escape Route for Big Corporate ?

The then Finance Minister late Mr. Arun Jaitley & the present Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman used to say that IBC will prove to be a game changer. Indians are scared of stigma &...

Read more June 18, 2021 at 11:14 am Devidas Tuljapurkar

History Shows that Public Sector Banks are Needed

When India attained Independence in 1947 it inherited a weak, desperate and unwieldy banking structure. Other than the Imperial Bank of India, there were many Indian joint stock banks, but they did not have...

Read more May 17, 2021 at 4:49 pm Thomas Franco

How was Banking in the Private Sector?

There were no public sector banks till 1955. Only on 1st July 1955 Imperial Bank of India was nationalised creating State Bank of India. It is important to know what was banking in our...

Read more May 8, 2021 at 12:05 pm Thomas Franco

State-Owned Banks: Do We Need Them Anymore?

As an essential part of the financial system, banks’ role in India’s ambitious goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy has become a topic of intense debate. Significant reforms in scheduled commercial banks, mainly...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 4:47 pm Aswathi Nair
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