Privatise all PSBs besides SBI for now, says report

The Centre ought to privatise all public sector banks (PSBs) however State Bank of India (SBI), mentioned a report on privatisation of PSBs ready by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) Director General Poonam Gupta — a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister — and Arvind Panagariya — professor, Columbia University and former vice chairman of NITI Aayog.

“We propose that the case for privatization applies to all PSBs, including SBI. But we recognize that within the Indian economic framework and political ethos, the government would want to retain at least one PSB in its portfolio. Thus, keeping in view its size and relatively better performance, we propose that the goal should be to privatize all PSBs except SBI for now,” learn a report titled ‘Privatization of Public Sector Banks in India Why, How and How Far?’

The report says that the federal government ought to begin privatisation workouts with two robust banks. “In our view, in the pathway toward privatization of all of the 11 PSBs, it is important that the first two banks chosen for privatization set an example for the success of future privatizations. The banks chosen may be the ones with the highest returns on assets and equity, and the lowest NPAs in the last five years,” it learn. According to plans by the federal government, two weak banks are prone to be privatised.

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