Apart from leveraging its core competence of corporate and infrastructure lending, the merged entity will be a complete bank in the sense that it will not only take retail deposits but also pursue opportunities in retail lending in a big way.

 The IDBI Restructuring Bill was to be taken up in the monsoon session of Parliament for clearance but could not see the light of day.

 

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First Published: Nov 17 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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