{"id":199535,"date":"2022-08-10T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199535"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:07:27","slug":"centre-asks-iba-to-ready-ease-like-plan-for-regional-rural-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-asks-iba-to-ready-ease-like-plan-for-regional-rural-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks IBA to ready EASE-like plan for regional rural banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cCentre asks IBA to ready EASE-like plan for regional rural banks\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Business Standard <\/b>on<b> 10th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centre has asked the Indian Banks Association(IBA) to prepare a viability plan for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rbi-allows-rrbs-to-access-laf-msf-windows\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regional Rural Banks<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(RRBs) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">similar to the Enhanced Access and Service Excellence (EASE) for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">public sector banks<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(PSBs).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is EASE?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enhanced Access and Service Excellence(EASE) is a common reform agenda for Public Sector Banks (PSBs).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is aimed at institutionalizing clean lending, better customer service, simplified and enhanced credit and robust governance and HR practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/finance-minister-unveils-4th-edition-of-public-sector-bank-reforms-agenda-ease-4-0\/\"><b>Click Here to read more\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the reforms the government is planning for RRBs?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>EASE-like Plan for RRBs: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government has asked the Indian Banks Association(IBA) to prepare a viability plan for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regional Rural Banks<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(RRBs) similar to the EASE plan for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">public sector banks<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(PSBs).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Restructure RRBs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Department of Financial Services(DFS) had formed an expert committee to seek recommendations for making RRBs viable in the medium to long term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The panel has recommended operational and governance reforms for RRBs that will be based on the achievement of operational milestones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 These include credit expansion, business diversification, NPA reduction, cost rationalization, technology adoption and improvement in corporate governance among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>List RRBs on Stock exchange:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The government is looking to list operationally-sound RRBs on the stock exchanges. This move is seen as providing additional sources to meet their regulatory capital requirement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre asks IBA to ready EASE-like plan for regional rural banks\u201d published in Business Standard on 10th August 2022. What is the News? The Centre has asked the Indian Banks Association(IBA) to prepare a viability plan for Regional Rural Banks(RRBs) similar to the Enhanced Access and Service&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-asks-iba-to-ready-ease-like-plan-for-regional-rural-banks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre asks IBA to ready EASE-like plan for regional rural banks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10503],"class_list":["post-199535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}