Supporting the demand of more funds by the public sector banks (PSBs), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor R Gandhi has said that public sector banks need more capital than budgeted to strengthen their balance sheets and deal with non-performing assets (NPAs). The Deputy Governor further elaborated that banks need capital infusion for three things – ‘to meet Basel III, better provisioning and improving banks business.'
Gandhi stated that follow-on public offers and capital infusion by the government are two ways to raise the capital. Recently, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan too had stressed that banks should have enough capital so that they can clean up their balance sheet; he has also flagged concerns over inadequate capital infusion.
For the current fiscal 2016, the government had allocated Rs 7,940 crore for state-owned banks. Later after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley assured to provide more than the budgeted amount current fiscal, the government announced its plan to infuse Rs 57,000 crore in PSBs in two years, with an infusion of about $3 billion in the current year and perhaps twice as much in the next year. The government has already assessed capital requirement of public sector banks. Public sector banks will need an additional capital of Rs 2.40 lakh crore by 2018 to meet the Basel III capital adequacy norms.
Earlier, Union cabinet in December 2014, keeping the huge capital requirements in mind, had allowed public sector banks to raise up to Rs 1.60 lakh crore from markets by diluting government holding to 52 per cent in phases.
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