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Controversy over CII’s Proposal to close down three Nationalised Banks(part-II)

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Staff Reporter

Under the pressure of heavy protests and demand by the bank employees to reveal the names of the industrialists charged with millions of rupees of debt (taken from the banks) against their names - the CII has stated in a press meeting that it would ask the union government for withdrawal of its proposal to closedown the 3 nationalised banks. But even after that the organisations of the banks employees are not receding from carrying on with their prospects and demand for either return of the huge amount of loans taken from the banks by the industrialists or public disclosure of their names. Moreover, these organisations have seriously changed the president of the CII (Mr. Rahul Bajaj) itself and also Mr. Arun Bharatam, an industrialist and number of CII to have taken loans worth more than Rs. 1000 crores without repaying and part of these loans. The assistant secretary of AIBEA, Ramanand, has remarked that the CII cheifs should not take the public for granted.

The BEFI leader Mr. Pradip Biswas has said that even after such uproar over the CII's proposal to closedown Indian Bank, UCO Bank and UBI including the reaction from the organisations of bank employee, the silence of the Central Government the offices of the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister is really surprising although CII is said to have submitted its proposals to the centre. He said that out only the bank employees, the employees of other financial institutions will also join in the movement of resilience against the proposals. He further claimed that the recommendation of CII to close down the 3 nationalised banks merely forms a part of the Central Government's disastrous policies and so the movement would be directed accordingly.

CII, on the other hand, has claimed that no number of the Task Force concerned with outstanding loans is a "culprit - borrower" of the nationalised banks. UNI has reported that in a Press Conference, CII has denied charges of bank raptly against Mr. Rahul Bajaj, the CII President, and Mr. Arun Bharatam. CII has also asserted that it is in. Consonance with the Verma Committee Report that the Task Force of the CII had proposed the closure of the 3 nationalised banks with the aim of building up an Asset Reconstruction Company.

The CPI general secretary Mr. A.B. Bardhan has come up with a list of 200 industrial groups who have not repaid their loans amounting to more than Rs. 11,000 crores taken from the so-called weak banks. The list includes names of some directors and owners of those industrial companies as well as some numbers of the big three financial organisation of the country - CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM. In fact, it is these people who have made the banks weak. Mr. A.B. Bardhan has further clarified that the proposal to shut down on to privatise some weak, or rather,, weakened banks has given rise to a huge tumult against it.

The list published by the CPI consists of the names of Premier Vinyle Flooring Limited and Modi Industrialist Limited of Uttar Pradesh on one hand and Ganapati Exports Limited, Wellman, SCIL of West Bengal on the other. Mr. Bardhan said that the sources of nationlised banks reveal a principal loan amount of Rs. 51,000 crores which has not been repaid while the interest thereof at the compound interest rate will nearby double this amount. The same is the case for private sector banks and financial institutions and the principal loan amount in their case is Rs. 58,000 crores. He moreover said that there have been no real intentions of the government with regard to loan recovery. The existing laws in this respect are a sheer vanity. Mr. Bardhan has demanded more transparency about it. He has said that failure of loan repayment of such mammoth amounts by the big industrial bullies must be regarded as criminal offence. The loans should be recovered in the form of their assets and properties.





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