Nayak panel stirs up a row - The Hindu
Nayak panel stirs up a row - The Hindu
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Government interference
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Government interference
Government interference
has adversely affected corporate governance in PSBs which face dual
regulation, the RBI being the banks’ traditional regulator. They also
face dual external oversight from the CBI and CVC.
Not
many outside the public sector will realise as to how deleterious the
impact of these organisations have been on their normal working. There
are so many instances of fear psychosis holding back commercial decision
making.
Government interference has meant that
policy objectives rather than commercial considerations dictate a PSB’s
working. A less charitable way of saying is that it is because of
government pressure that several PSBs have lent to unbankable companies.
Not all the worryingly high non-performing assets that banks are
saddled with are due to government interference but if banks had decided
on purely commercial considerations, they would most certainly had been
better off.
Government control has also made the
appointment of top bank executives opaque. Many of them owe their
appointments to considerations other than merit. Once appointed as
executive directors, managing directors and in other senior positions
the time for a quid pro quo starts.
This is not to say that all PSB top managers are below par and do not deserve to be ......***
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