The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India Rajiv Mehrishi has said that the root cause of Indian banking sector crisis is the problem in the bond market as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) acts as regulator as well as trader. He noted that the RBI, in its effort to ensure that banks don’t fail, has slowed down giving licences to new banks, so it promotes uncompetitive behavior.
Mehrishi has pointed out that very few new banks have got licence in India in recent years, and that is example of abuse of market dominance by the state. Referring to the Walmart-Flipkart $16 billion deal, he said that Walmart may have several common shareholding with Amazon, and that also needs to be worried about.
The CAG further said that the market must work efficiently but that does not happen due to asymmetry of information and abuse of power etc. Therefore, he said that state intervention is required in the market. Noting there has been huge expansion of markets and growth of new economy, he said that new economy is also likely to have dominance and abuse of dominance so we need to look at new economy.
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