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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
Challenges Before the Banking Sector Today
The Public Sector Banks have been facing challenges since 1991 with the so-called reform process. Starting from the Narasimhan Committee to P.J. Nayak Committee has recommended reducing Government share. They want banks to be...
Why Public should Oppose Privatisation of Public Sector Banks!
Around 10 Lakh bank employees of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) are protesting for two days against the proposal to privatise (sell) two Public Sector Banks. Here, I try to explain why Public Sector Banks...
Privatization through Asset Monetization
While the earlier attempt to monetize public assets initiated first in 1993 to monetize unutilized and surplus land assets, had come a cropper following resistance by state governments, the state governments wanted a share...
Why Financial Sector Strike?
Banks and Insurance were in the hands of the Private Sector only till 1969. After the nationalisation of banks in 1969 and subsequently in 1980, the outreach of the banking sector changed. Banks became...
Taking away Govt business from Govt Banks: A deep conspiracy to kill them.
The Finance Minister has announced that the government business handled by the government banks i.e. the public sector banks will also be provided to the private sector. Already certain government businesses have been slowly...
Random Reflections; Privatization of Public Sector – Withering of the State?
We just celebrated the 74th Independence day. On the Midnight of 14th August 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru while addressing the Constituent Assembly in his famous speech, “Tryst with destiny”, underlined that the service of...
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