India needs more banks to double credit-to-GDP ratio to 100%: RBI board member

09 Sep 2020 Evaluate

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board member Manish Sabharwal has said India needs more banks for sustaining high growth and doubling the credit-to-GDP ratio to 100 per cent. Sabharwal also said the country needs immediate reforms in banking, compliance, labour laws and education because hope is not a strategy.

Further, talking about economic recovery, he said various sectors are in different stages of improvement.  He said the FMCG sector is back to 100 per cent, whereas hotel, airlines and construction segments have a long way to go. He noted COVID-19 has created great business opportunities, but not everybody is in a position to raise funds.

He pointed out that bank credit, venture capital and private equity funding had slowed down since March but it is a great opportunity for those who are in a position to raise funds to acquire assets.  On the issue of stimulus package, he said it would be wrong to throw money from the helicopter, and the right thing would be to create a better environment for entrepreneurship through reforms. This is a time to build for the next quarter century and not for the next quarter.


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