27 February 2012

BANKING Recommendation of Committee on Priority Sector Lending norms :: Edelweiss

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the report of the Committee headed by Mr. M
V Nair constituted to re‐examine the existing classification and suggest revised
guidelines with regard to priority sector lending and related issues. We believe the
recommendations are neutral to negative for banks (especially private sector banks) ,
negative for asset financing companies (like STFL and MMFSL) and neutral for HFCs like
HDFC and LICHFL.
Recommendations for banks: Negative for private and foreign
banks
Positive:
• Recommends abolishment of distinction between direct and indirect agriculture
and cover the entire spectrum of agriculture and allied activities.
• Will benefit from deduction of the earlier investments in RIDF from the current
shortfall.
• Interest rates on RIDF will now be linked to reverse repo rate (7.5%) against the
bank rate (6%).
• Eligibility limits have been raised for categories—Education etc. (Refer Table2)
Negative:
• A focused sub‐target of 9% of ANBC is fixed for loans extended by banks to small
and marginal farmers, to be achieved in stages latest by 2015‐16—Private banks on
aggregate short by 6.2%. Also, unless backed by adequate credit guarantee scheme
NPLs in the space can further rise.
• Similarly, a focused sub‐target of 7% of ANBC is fixed for loans extended by banks
to micro enterprises, to be achieved in stages latest by 2013‐14. Private banks on
aggregate short by 2.3%.
• Foreign banks' PSL limits hiked to 40% from current 32%. Also, making it stricter to
meet the export credit sub‐limit of 15% (12% earlier) as capping export credit upto
a limit of INR100mn will only qualify for reckoning under priority sector.
Important recommendations for NBFCs including HFCs: Negative for
AFCs, neutral for HFCs
Positive:
Bank loans to NBFCs for on‐lending including buy‐outs and securitization to specified
segments may be reckoned for classification under priority sector (PSL), up to a
maximum of 5% of ANBC. On the face, the move is positive for AFC, HFC as the onlending
will now be classified as PSL.

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