Economy

Differentiated banks are banking institutions licensed by the RBI to provide specific banking services and products.It is a system refers to the system of different licenses for different sub components of the banking sector such as Limited Banking License, Commercial Banking License etc. A differentiated license will allow a bank to offer products only in … Read more

Causes of Yes Bank crisis: Loan spree In the last five years, Yes Bank went on a loaning spree. Its total advances rose by 334% between FY14 and FY19, the highest rise among comparable banks in the period. Bad loans multiply Many borrowers started defaulting. The bank’s Gross NPA% (loans overdue for >90 days) zoomed … Read more

NABH NIRMAN: The government is augmenting the airport capacity of various airports as part of NABH (NextGen Airports for BHarat) Nirman initiative.The government in February announced a new initiative — NABH Nirman— under which it proposes to expand airport capacity in the country by more than five times to handle a billion trips a year.The … Read more

Recently a moratorium was put on withdrawal limit upto 50,000 by RBI circular. This lead to panic among the YES bank consumers which led to fall in the share price. RBi came up with restructuring scheme. SBI will invest in 49% stake and other private investors have also invested in the bank. Even though the … Read more

National gas grid intends to create network of pipeline infrastructure to connect gas sources to major demand centres, develop city gas distribution network and remove regional imbalance in access to natural gas. The objective is to create interconnected network of pipelines to make supply of natural gas to domestic, industrial or commercial premises and CNG … Read more

Oil prices plummeted to $35/barrel and it saw the biggest fall in single day. The fall in oil prices are due to various reasons which are as follows: Failure of OPEC-plus cooperation. Russia rejected the request of Saudi request to effect more cuts in output given the fall in demand owing to the economic impact … Read more

Subsidies are a major component of expenditure they are a form of transfer payment given by government to the People. Subsidies can be classified as food, petroleum and agriculture subsidies. Why rationalisation: Government expenditure power is limited and they cannot go beyond a point further the fiscal deficit should be solely utilised for the purpose … Read more

Always keep in mind the following equation for writing answer: Overall GDP= C+I+G+X-M Measure to improve investment: Lowering of corporate tax rate to increase investment. Lowering of the repo rate by 135bpsc. To increase the access to finance. Easier of FDI norms. Most of the FDI is allowed by automatic route and others via government … Read more

The Finance Minister has announced the biggest consolidation plan of Public sector Banks (PSBs)- merging 10 of them into just 4.  Merger is in line with the recommendation of Narsimhan committee recommendation of creating few banks of big size ( global average). There are no banks in top 50 global banks and the role of … Read more

Disinvestment means sale or liquidation of assets by the government, usually Central and state public sector enterprises, projects, or other fixed assets.The government undertakes disinvestment to reduce the fiscal burden on the exchequer, or to raise money for meeting specific needs, such as to bridge the revenue shortfall from other regular sources. Indian non debt … Read more