In a bid to meet public sector banks’ (PSBs) global capital requirement norms, Basel III, the Finance Ministry is likely to finalise Rs 14,000-crore capital allocation to the banks by the end of this month. In this regard, the government has received capital requirement proposals from all public sector banks and is evaluating their proposals at the moment. The fund allocation will be done to individual banks by issue of preferential shares, which will increase the Government’s holding in the banks.
All public sector banks, at present, are meeting Basel III requirements for capitalization, though four of them -- Indian Overseas Bank, IDBI Bank, Bank of Maharashtra and Dena Bank -- have Tier-1 capital below 8% and government will take required measures to ensure that these banks retain the same by the end of the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, other lenders like Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank have made a request of Rs 1,500 crore and Rs 1,000 crore of capital infusion by the government during the current fiscal, respectively.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram, in its Budget speech, had said that the government will provide Rs 12,517 crore as additional capital into 13 public sector banks before March 2013 and also proposed to provide a further amount of Rs 14,000 crore for capital infusion in 2013-14. The government had infused about Rs 20,117 crore in public sector banks during 2010-11, and Rs 12,000 crore in 2011-12.
Execution of Basel III capital regulations foresee improving requirement of core equity capital by banks due to higher capital ratios. The Basel III capital ratios are expected to be fully phased in as on March 31, 2018.
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