Finance Minister to hold meeting to review financial performance of lenders

27 Dec 2019 Evaluate

In order to review the financial performance of the lenders and their business growth, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to hold a meeting with heads of public sector banks (PSBs) on December 28. The meeting is also expected to take up discussion on non-performing asset recovery through both NCLT and non-NCLT means.

The meeting will take stock of the banking sector and pushing loan growth. In the meeting, the banks may be nudged to further cut interest rates to fully pass on the transmission of the repo rate cut. Given the importance of the banking sector in generating demand and boosting consumption, the meeting with the MD and CEOs of PSBs ahead of the Budget 2020-21 is considered to be important.

Meanwhile, banks have staged recovery of Rs 4,01,393 crore over the previous four financial years, including record recovery of Rs 1,56,702 crore during 2018-19. But, lending rates are rising for borrowers after accounting for inflation and falling economic growth, despite the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) making credit cheaper.

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