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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Our Banks Are Fit : Former Governer

Mr. Y V Reddy,
Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.


While speaking to CNBC-TV18’s Latha Venkatesh, He said :

India's banks were reasonably strong. “They can tackle asset bubble burst,” he said, adding, strong domestic demand makes India resilient.

The domestic factors lent some defence against global distress. It was domestic demand that led to India's economic growth, he said. However, he said he did not see any evidence of aggregate demand deficiency in Indian economy. “The rural demand is still fairly strong and the financial sector was strong. “In a way perhaps, when just as we had exaggerated optimism before, this time there might have been exaggerated pessimism,”

The duration and severity of crisis is still unknown to the world.

The policy measures taken in India are still to impact the economy fully. The financial markets draw comfort from RBI's commitment on liquidity, he said. Stress is confined to frictional liquidity for temporary time.

Barring a few, most companies and households are not excessively leveraged and the government balance sheet's forex exposure is insignificant. Forex assets and manageable current account gap, he said, provides comfort to the external side.

“The whole approach to banking has changed. Banking is more like a public utility. Now, once you say that banking is more like a public utility there are two things that comes out—two options—either it is publicly owned or privately owned but rigorously controlled, rigorously regulated.”

“So, ultimately if the capital has to be found for the banking sector, it has to be firm. But to say that, you have to find a capital at any cost is inviting possible problems and very serious problems”

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