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| Govt earmarks Rs 1,542 crore to buy RBI stake in Nabard, NHB |
| Press Trust Of India / New Delhi Jul 09, 2009, 00:23 IST |
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The government has set aside Rs 1,542 crore for acquiring the Reserve Bank of India’s holding in the two regulators National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) and National Housing Bank (NHB).
The provision is for meeting the expenditure for acquiring RBI holding in Nabard and NHB, according to the Budget document tabled in Parliament earlier this week.
The Centre has earmaked Rs 1,100 crore for the acquisition of Nabard and Rs 442 crore for NHB stake. At present, RBI holds about 72.5 per cent stake in Nabard and the remaining lies with the government. NHB is wholly owned by the Reserve Bank. The total paid-up capital of Nabard currently stands at Rs 2,000 crore, while NHB was capitalised at Rs 350 crore when it was set up in 1988.
It was the Narasimhan Committee that recommended the transfer of RBI stake in State Bank of India, Nabard and NHB to the government to separate the central bank’s functioning as the owner of banks and the sector regulator.
In 2007, the government acquired 59.73 per cent stake held by RBI in the country’s largest bank State Bank of India for Rs 35,531.33 crore.
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