Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a special meeting with the country's public sector banks on Monday

New delhi date. May 9, 2020, Saturday
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaram has scheduled a meeting with state-owned banks on Monday (May 11) to review whether the industries have started getting credit as the lockdown of Corona has eased in many parts of the country.
The purpose of the meeting is to find out the reason behind banks keeping their surplus money with the banking sector regulator i.e. the Reserve Bank and why they are not willing to lend money to non-banking finance companies (NBFCs).
The finance minister will also get an estimate of who the banks have lent money to since March 1, 2020 and whether they have started lending money to anyone following the Corona epidemic.
The Reserve Bank has made liquidity available to banks through Targeted Long Term Repo Operations (TLTRO). Despite providing Rs 2,000 crore to banks, bids have been received from banks for only half of it. Therefore, the Finance Minister is going to have a special discussion on this issue. The fact that banks have not taken full advantage of the situation means that they are reluctant to lend money to non-banking finance companies.
In addition to looking at how much money has been lent to non-banking finance companies, there will also be a discussion on how much money has been given to others and how much money banks have kept in the Reserve Bank under reverse repo.
It is pertinent to mention here that banks have kept Rs 2.5 trillion with the Reserve Bank through reverse repo.
Banks have sanctioned loans to companies, but the amount has not been transferred to them as the business has not started. That is why banks have kept a large amount of money with the Reserve Bank. According to the finance ministry, state-owned banks sanctioned loans worth Rs 2.7 trillion in March-April.
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