The government is actively working towards consolidation of public sector banks (PSBs) with a view to create 3-4 global-sized banks and reduce the number of state-owned lenders to about 12. In the medium term, the 21 PSBs would get consolidated to 10-12. As part of a three-tier structure, there would be at least 3-4 banks of the size of the country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI). Some region-centric banks like Punjab and Sind Bank and Andhra Bank will continue as independent entities, while some mid-size lenders would also co-exist.
Enthused by the success of SBI merger, the Finance Ministry is considering clearing another such proposal in the public sector banking space by this fiscal end if bad loan situation comes under control by then. According to former RBI governor C Rangarajan, the system will have some large banks, some small banks, some local banks and so forth. He added that what is needed in the system is variety.
In the last consolidation drive, five associate banks and Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) merged with the SBI on April 1, 2017. The five associate banks were State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Travancore (SBT). With the merger, the total customer base of SBI reached around 37 crore people with a branch network of around 24,000 and nearly 59,000 ATMs across the country.
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