October 19, 2015

Government have initiated reforms to improve banking sector : Prime Minister

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the government has initiated a series of banking reforms including re-capitalisation of PSU banks, change in rules for hiring top management and paper-less transactions to curb the black money menace. The Prime Minister said the entire banking sector is undergoing major transformation with the advent of latest technology. "The banking sector is seeing changes. Mobile banking is coming up. Banking will be premises-less and paper-less," he said at the launch of IDFC Bank here. Modi further said India is slowly moving towards a situation where the currency printing cost will come down. "We have to take the country in that direction. As we use technology, we move to paper-less banking, currency-less business operations; the possibility of black money will gradually become negligible," he said. He also stressed the need for banks to focus on rural areas as they have immense potential.