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27/09/2023 cgpiadmin

Growth in Bank Lending:
Dangerous Trends

High rate of growth in bank lending and improved profitability of banks are being cited as signs of good health of the Indian economy. However, the fact that credit growth is driven by loans for consumption, rather than loans for production, is not a healthy sign. It is a dangerous trend. Moreover, the improved profitability of banks has been achieved at a very high public cost, including massive government spending to finance waiver of loans owed by capitalist defaulters, and charging much higher interest on consumer credit than the interest paid on deposits.

23/12/2021 cgpiadmin

Bank workers strike against privatisation!

Nearly 9,00,000 bank workers participated in the strike, resulting in the closure of banking operations of all the public sector banks. Through the strike, bank workers expressed their determination to defeat the anti-national and anti-social plan of the bourgeoisie to transfer ownership of public sector banks into private hands, to enable monopoly capitalists to rake in maximum profits.

06/05/2020 cgpiadmin

On the Crisis in Public Sector Banks

Comrade Devidas R Tuljapurkar (DRT), General Secretary, Maharashtra State Bank Employees Federation (MSBEF) and Joint Secretary, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), spoke to Mazdoor Ekta Lehar (MEL) about the crisis in the Public Sector Banks.