Finance minister P Chidambaram, after reviewing the performance of public sector banks, has allowed the government to infuse the budgeted Rs 14,000 crore of bank capitalization through preferential allotment. However, the minister ruled out the possibility of the government diluting its shareholding in the state-run banks.
This development is complete contradiction to Reserve Bank of India’s suggestion of government diluting ownership in Public State Banks even below 51% as an option for raising funds and easing fiscal burden, with government maintaining of keeping its stake in state-run banks at 58%.
Further, the minister has left it on the bank’s board to decide upon the issue of raising capital from the markets through qualified institutional placement (QIP) or other routes, which would be in addition to the capital infusion by the government. This development comes on the heels of the country's biggest lender, State Bank of India mulling raising 8,000 crore through the QIP route. The bank, in which government holds 62.31% stake, is expected to take a call on this within a month.
The government infused Rs 12,517 crore into 13 PSBs in 2012-13. It had infused about Rs 20,117 crore in PSBs during 2010-11, and Rs 12,000 crore in 2011-12.
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