Takeover Urban Cooperative Bank
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Takeover Urban Cooperative Bank

Government has asked now PSU banks to target urban cooperative banks and advised them to takeover sinking banks. I am unable to understand RBI works as an advisor to keep a man healthy or a doctor to diagnose ailing bank or simply a doctor to conduct post Mortem report of a dead body and submit report. It will not be an exaggeration to say that government in general works like a doctor to submit post mortem report of all dead bodies like scams, terror attacks, fraud ,scandals and forget.

RBI and other regulators first allow banks to loot the money, extend reckless credits, spoil the internal culture and intrinsic value of the bank, promote corruption in credit and Human Resource Management, waiver of loan and so on and in the next phase recommends for infusion of capital to salvage the bank and lastly recommends other big banks to takeover sinking bank.

Some times cooperative banks become out of control and some times some Regional Rural banks or some other time some PSU or private bank. In the past several cooperative banks have closed their shutters. Many Private Banks have been forcibly merged with PSU banks like Punjab National Bank or Union Bank or Bank of India. Even there was a proposal to merge banks like United Bank or U Co bank or Indian Bank.

Government has in the past provided capital as oxygen from time to time to various sinking or weak banks .Even in the last month government has passed a bill to provide Rs15000/ capital infusion to weak banks. But unfortunately it never tries to strike at the root of unhealthy culture and stop political intervention. Inspite of preaching all sermons NPA in banks has been rising speedily though it is concealed at the behest of RBI or Government of India.

The great question arises why and how does RBI fail to nip in the bud and why does it not punish the person who caused and perpetuated corrupt line of action in all fields. Why does it fail to break nexus of politicians in spread of corrupt culture in credit delivery prevailing all over the country in almost all banks? Why does it not punish the chartered Accountants who more often than not sell their signature and blindly certify balance sheets? How a rating agency fails to identify bad banks and alert the regulators in time?

Danendra jain
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