Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar has said that the major challenges for the future for the banking sector remains ensuring intermediation by financial institutions is clean be it public sector banks (PSBs), private sector or Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC). Kumar further added that making credit rating agencies more accountable is also another challenge.
Besides, he mentioned that the government has taken various efforts that have resulted in reduction of non-performing assets (NPAs) and an improvement in recovery. Recoveries in the last four years have increased to Rs 3.62 lakh crore and Rs 1.2 lakh crore in the current fiscal (FY19).
With an aim to improve the health of PSBs which saddled with NPAs, he stated the government has infused Rs 3 lakh crore since March 2015. Additionally, he said that the synergy and scale is another area. The government last month approved merger of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda to create the third largest lender after SBI and ICICI Bank. The new will come into being from April 1, 2019.
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