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Banks asked to provide credit at 'reasonable' rates
Published on Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:59, Updated on Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 14:26 in section
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New Delhi: Concerned over a slow down in the economy to 8.7 per cent, the Economic Survey on Thursday suggested that banks should provide "adequate credit at a reasonable cost", vindicating the rate cuts announced by the public sector lenders last fortnight.
Banks have been advised to reduce their lending rates by squeezing their spreads — the difference between the lending and deposit rates.
According to the Economic Survey, the banking sector needs to "review the spreads suitably, thereby ensuring that credit offtake by the productive sectors is maintained, facilitating the growth momentum of the economy."
Expressing concern over deceleration in credit expansion, the Survey said, "It is necessary that credit expansion is non-inflationary and the productive sectors receive adequate credit at reasonable cost."
The concerns raised by the Survey on banking sector credit assume significance in the backdrop of declining credit-deposit ratio, which dipped from 74 per cent as on March 31, 2007 to 71.8 per cent as on January 4, 2008.
The Survey also warned that any further deceleration in credit provided by banks "would have a detrimental impact on the overall economic growth."
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