Chidambaram asks banks to go after 'big' loan defaulters | Business Standard
Chidambaram asks banks to go after 'big' loan defaulters | Business Standard
MY VIEW:
MY VIEW:
Finance Minister made three
significant observations at the 78th Foundation Day celebrations in New Delhi on February 10, 2014::
i)
We cannot show laxity to wilul defaulters. It cannot be
where loans will become non-performing, where borrowers prosper and lenders
suffer.
ii)
“Humongous” capital is required in the future and
government is doing its part…Banks have to find their own capital by retaining
their profits for capital infusion.
iii)
The amount of NPAs in September 2013 has more than
doubled since March 2011.
It is common
knowledge that GOI has been milking profit-making public sector undertakings
including public sector banks and statutory bodies dry by making unreasonable
demands for cash transfer to government or diversion of resources to less
profitable avenues. If FM’s expectation at (ii) comes from genuine concern for
the health of PSUs, this should be demonstrated by not giving ‘informal’
directions to transfer surplus income/profit to GOI or declare dividends to
meet budgeted ‘quota’ of receipts from government-owned organisations.
M G Warrier, Thiruvananthapuram
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